Isn't that a beta-level filesystem?
At 12:47 AM 11/10/2000 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Bunce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > > If you're always looking stuff up on simple ID numbers and
> > > > "stuff" is a very simple data structure, then I doubt any DBMS can
> > > > beat
> > > >
> > > > open D, "/data/1/12/123456" or ...
> > > >
> > > > from a fast local filesystem.
> > >
> > > Note that Theo Schlossnagel was saying over lunch at ApacheCon that if
> > > your filename has more than 8 characters on Linux (ext2fs) it skips from
>a
> > > hashed algorithm to a linear algorithm (or something to that affect). So
> > > go careful there. I don't have more details or a URL for any information
> > > on this though.
> >
> > Similarly on Solaris (and perhaps most SysV derivatives) path component
> > names longer than 16 chars (configurable) don't go into the inode
> > lookup cache and so require a filesystem directory lookup.
>
>If you are building a new system with this scheme, try ReiserFS on
>a Linux box. It does not suffer from the usual problems when
>you put a large number of files in one directory and is extremely
>fast at lookups.
>
> Les Mikesell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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