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otterley
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lsr: ls with io_uring
What’s the filesystem type? Ext4 suffers terrible lookup performance with large directories, while xfs absolutely flies.
0x000xca0xfe
4 days ago
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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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