Re: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman)

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:55:26 +1200


On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 04:29:53PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:

> The only places where I've ever heard of 4000 files in one
> directory is net news - which is a place where this approach has
> worked very well indeed.

I was under the impression that SGI test XFS performance with
_millions_ of file in directories simply because that how some
customers store their data....

-cw

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