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bug#7389: rename() over NFS
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#7389: rename() over NFS |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:30:48 +0100 |
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> if you see ways to improve things without impacting performance
>> or maintainability, I'm all for it.
>
> Maintainability wouldn't be impacted, because the fix would be to use
> lib/rename.c, with
> #define RENAME_DEST_EXISTS_BUG 1
> #define RENAME_HARD_LINK_BUG 1
>
> But performance would be impacted, since 2 lstat() calls would happen
> before every rename().
That sounds like it would be excessive.
Currently, moving 100 regular files into a subdir
incurs 100% of its time in 100 rename and 200 stat calls:
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
79.69 0.000051 1 100 rename
20.31 0.000013 0 200 100 lstat
0.00 0.000000 0 8 read
Adding a rename wrapper and doubling the number of lstat calls
per file would represent a significant slow-down.