Re: technical comparison

[Ted Faber]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:42:02PM -0600, Charles Randall wrote:
> From: Greg Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >                                              There's no real
> >excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of
> >files.
> 
> While I agree completely that there's no excuse for applications that behave
> like that, a filesystem that scales well under these harsh conditions will
> serve us all better in the long run.

TANSTAAFL.  

It's not obvious that you can get such scaling for free.  If the
tradeoffs to make the system perform a dumb task well mean that it
won't perform a sane task well, you lose.

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