Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:24:34 +1000 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, void <float@firedrake.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010525142434.A55317@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <nospam-990735453.93235@maxim.gbch.net>; from gjb@gbch.net on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:17:33AM %2B1000 References: <20010524082013.G88992-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> <nospam-990735453.93235@maxim.gbch.net>
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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. One of the things that I've always liked about Unix was that there aren't as many arbitrary limits on what you can do and how you can do it, as there are on other platforms. For example, I once used an Acorn Archimedes computer, which had an OS called RISC-OS. The "advanced disk filing system", ADFS, had some cute limits built in: no more than 10 characters in a file name, and no more than 70 (?memory fades) files in a directory. Nothing in Unix stops you from putting millions of files in a directory. There are (I mantain _obviously_) good reasons to want to do that. The only thing that stops you is that _some_ Unix platforms, using _some_ file systems, behave badly if you do that. They should be fixed. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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