Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:32:26 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, void <float@firedrake.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <nospam-990765146.99844@maxim.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20010525142434.A55317@gurney.reilly.home> of Fri, 25 May 2001 14:24:34 %2B1000 References: <20010524082013.G88992-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> <nospam-990735453.93235@maxim.gbch.net> <20010525142434.A55317@gurney.reilly.home>
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"Andrew Reilly" wrote: | On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:17:33AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: | > the life of all users of the system simpler. There's no real | > excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of | > files. | | [...] | | Nothing in Unix stops you from putting millions of files in a | directory. This is just not true. For the vast majority of the systems that have ever been called Unix, attempting to put millions of files into a directory would be an utter disaster. No ifs or buts. It might be nice if this were different, although I see no good reason to support it myself, but it's generally not a serious possibility and so applications that depend on being able to do that are plain stupid. Their authors are either too lazy to make their use of the file system a bit more sensible or too stupid to know that file systems are not databases. The right answer is to write applications with some understanding of the basics of software engineering or computer science. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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