Re: A request to those people who want B-tree directories
Jeff Garzik (jeff.garzik@spinne.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:21:14 -0500 (EST)
tytso wrote:
> Another way of asking the question is --- of those people who complain
> that it takes too long to look up a filename in a directory: while Linux
> is looking up a filename in a large directory, is Linux disk bound or
> CPU bound? If Linux is being disk bound, there are much better
> solutions that don't necessarily require a B-tree.
CPU bound, as Dean Gaudet (sp?) later notes. Running INN as a news server
(in the stock version) you could easily wind up with a directory containing
200,000 or more files in 24 hours.
Running your find command would kill our news server, but I'll see if I can
do it on the machine's off hours or soemthing. :)
Jeff
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