On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
I don't know the details of how each filesystem works, so I'm probably wrong about this, but I suspect that the "reiserfs" type of filesystem would do better than "ext2", because reiserfs uses a B-tree internally to avoid linear searches through lists of many files.
And when reiserfs loses its poor little mind and corrupts the filesystem irretrievably[*] then you have many fewer files to worry about, too! Adam [*] I even avoided axe-murderer jokes. How was that for tasteful? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
