On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0500, Dan wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.08 18:40:46 -0800: > > I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend > > you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a > > directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that > > directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as > > time goes on. > > On a related note there are filesystems that handle many > files/directories very quickly. They use alternate tree data structures > that behave quicker. ReiserFS is one of them. I believe XFS does quite > well too. FreeBSD should have adapted XFS in addition to ZFS. ZFS is a > resource monster. Shame, really. XFS is freely available in Linux for a > number of years. Hammer, the new FS for FreeBSDs is available for > DragonflyBSD.
If you really think HAMMER accomplishes the same goals as ZFS, you are sadly mistaken. I have no idea about XFS. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
