Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:14:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: namei() costs for symlink farms and big dirs Message-ID: <200001270314.TAA18141@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200001270152.LAA20687@azure.dstc.edu.au>
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:Can I pick some FreeBSD experts brains off-list please?
:
:anybody who can comment on the cost(s) of running large
:flat directories of symlinks (eg using GNU stow for /usr/local/bin)
:especially over NFS?
:
:cheers
: -George
There is definitely more overhead but you may not notice it. We
ran just about everything at BEST through softlinks (1), sometimes
several levels, and never noticed any problems.
(1) home directories, most configuration files, htdocs, virtual host
directory links.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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