On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:07:48 PST, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>  said:

> What is "efficiently"?  No one really cares about milliseconds here,
> seconds are even tollerable at least for small seconds :)

Anybody who's had to sit and watch a Sun E10K enumerate 400+ disks
will disagree with that, unless "small seconds" are tiny fractions thereof. :)