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> Anyone running a reasonably high-traffic news server these days threw out
> the one-file-per-article storage method a long time ago. It just doesn't
> scale to 30-40G per day.
But that means extra hair in the server. If the OS can take that over,
everybody wins, even those that didn't go the extra mile to implement their
own filesystem since the OS's sort of sucks for their application.
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