Re: [gcmd-dev] Re: volume label

[Piotr Eljasiak]

> > 2. performance killer 
> 
> That's actually not easy to figure.
> When i run a 'du' on large directory trees, only the first run 
> actually reads the disk physically. Further operations just use 
> the cached list. I don't know if either harddisks cache inode 
> tables or kernel drivers cache file lists or both.
> 
> Another thing is working on a large external USB-2.0 drive
> still is extremely slow, compared to SATA.
> gcmd should provide a way to disable performance killers on 
> specific drives, like USB or remote ones.
> 
> I consider updating the GUI a real performance killer, even with a fast
> graphic card, maybe just because gtk-2 simply is that slow.

I rather meant problems with GUI performance - I could imagine scenario
of copying a large number of small files when gcmd would have to update
vol label hundreds times a second... that WOULD hurt gcmd performance