From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 26 19:14:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59531548D for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:14:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA18141; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:14:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200001270314.TAA18141@apollo.backplane.com> To: George Michaelson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: namei() costs for symlink farms and big dirs References: <200001270152.LAA20687@azure.dstc.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message