From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 23 16:40:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh.jetcafe.org [205.147.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E552137B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA07127; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105232340.QAA07127@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with version: MH 6.8.4 #1[UCI] To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Nadav Eiron , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Andresen Subject: Re: technical comparison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:40:30 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Hear hear! ;) (Been waiting for that one) > However, we can take it as a given that people who need > to do this are incapable of doing computer science. You can't make that assumption just yet (although it seems reasonable). We really don't know exactly what the problem they are trying to solve is. Network news sites running old versions of software (as an example, I know someone who still runs CNEWS) have very clear reasons for phenomena resembling 60,000 files in one directory. I would begin to question the assumption that seems to have been unquestioned. Namely, why is the focus -just- on speed? FreeBSD outperforms Linux on reliability and security as well. Not to mention networking. ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< We can never have enough of that which we really do not want. --Eric Hoffer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message