Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:35:36 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010524203536.C4669@ted.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828EE59@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com>; from crandall@matchlogic.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:42:02PM -0600 References: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828EE59@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com>
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--z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:42:02PM -0600, Charles Randall wrote: > From: Greg Black [mailto:gjb@gbch.net] > > There's no real > >excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of > >files. > > While I agree completely that there's no excuse for applications that behave > like that, a filesystem that scales well under these harsh conditions will > serve us all better in the long run. TANSTAAFL. It's not obvious that you can get such scaling for free. If the tradeoffs to make the system perform a dumb task well mean that it won't perform a sane task well, you lose. --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7DdMHaUz3f+Zf+XsRAjHxAJ0dROr97pSRXee+deEb/o8+ZVbnEQCdEtGJ pe73eyxVyk+xJPxruC5eP/8= =9P1i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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