Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and

Bill Huey (billh@mag.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:11:00 -0700 (PDT)

> you havent tried this, have you? The new 2.2 kernel includes a rather fast
> file namespace cache implementation, it takes ~5 microseconds to look up a
> file. Too slow?

Things like .so file in /usr/lib, icons in /usr/something/ will be automatically
skipped since this stuff is contained within the application or OS resource fork,
so the search space for a particular file under HFS is much smaller in MacOS
than with Win32/Unix since everything is treated as a file within those OSes.

That's why a rather broken MacOS can search for a file name much faster than
Win32/Unix, because there aren't that many files to search in the first place.

All the libs/icons/sound file are not file within the FS.

Uh, maybe I'm speaking out of my butt.

Sorry, for the initial reaction.

Clear ?

bill

> -- mingo

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