I'm not sure what you're saying here. It seems more appropriate to use a database instead of files in this case.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > Databases aren't filesystems, and they shouldn't be treated as such. > Especially if the text BLOBs need to be analyzed, summarized, etc. > > On 08/20/08 06:34, Shachar Or wrote: > > After solving the problem in the immediate consider telling the developer > > of that simulation software to use a database! > > > > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 03:40, Mag Gam wrote: > >> At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations > >> create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small > >> (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take > >> up inode space, I would like to tar them per day into one tar file. I > >> would then like an interface similar to zsh/ksh to "cd tar.file" and > >> use it as a typeical shell. Do tools like that exist? That would be > >> very benefical for us and our system admin does not have to yell at > >> us. > >> Any thoughts or ideas? > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no > hook beneath it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]