From owner-freebsd-fs Sun May 5 8:38:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973F937B405 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 08:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0053.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.53] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 174O5R-0004yk-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 08:38:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD551C3.BE1BD549@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 08:37:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: utsl@quic.net, Bakul Shah , Scott Hess , "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Julian Elischer wrote: > On Sun, 5 May 2002 utsl@quic.net wrote: > > However, it is nice to have the tools to do things right. Given how > > common this particulary problem seems to be, I think a library might be > > a good idea. I may write one, I'm working on an application now that > > needs to be able to scale to at least 1M files. :( > > > > consider using a database for indexing and using ifs to store the data > That is what it is for.. Careful with attribution. You left in one too many "xxx wrote:"'s. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message