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Re:lsr: ls with io_uring by otterley on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:31AM (#44605839)
What’s the filesystem type? Ext4 suffers terrible lookup performance with large directories, while xfs absolutely flies.
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Re:lsr: ls with io_uring by 0x000xca0xfe on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:45AM (#44606046)
Yup, default ext4 and most files are <4KB, so it's extra bad.

Thanks for the comment, didn't know that!

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