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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Subject: Re: stat benchmark
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:44:04PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> XFS for example already has bulkstat, but it is not really
> exported to userspace :-/

It is avaiable through an ugly ioctl.  Doesn't really help in this
use-case because bulkstat iterates over all inodes of a given filesystem
and not inodes of a directory.