Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 01:02:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL, jandrese@mitre.org Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <200105230502.f4N52oE210244@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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Terry Lambert writes: > I don't understand the inability to perform the trivial > design engineering necessary to keep from needing to put > 60,000 files in one directory. > > However, we can take it as a given that people who need > to do this are incapable of doing computer science. One could say the same about the design engineering necessary to handle 60,000 files in one directory. You're making excuses. People _want_ to do this, and it often performs better on a modern filesystem. This is not about need; it's about keeping ugly hacks out of the app code. http://www.namesys.com/5_1.html > (the rationale behind this last is that people who can't > design around needing 60,000 files in a single directory > are probably going to to be unable to correctly remember > the names of the files they created, since if they could, > then they could remember things like ./a/a/aardvark or > ./a/b/abominable). Eeew. "./a/b/abominable" is a disgusting old hack used to work around traditional filesystem deficiencies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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