On 08/14/2018 12:14 PM, Ron wrote:
> Why is checking a bunch of file permissions anywhere close to being as
> expensive as transferring 1.5TB over a WAN link?
Normally it shouldn't be but I recently had postgres create ~13M .snap
files and just opendir() took longer than anyone would care to wait...
so it can be just as expensive.
One could just as easily ask why create mode 600 files in places where
they don't belong.
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Dimitri Maziuk
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