On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:28:57PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Look at the history. Old news systems (netnews - NNTP) used one file per > article e.g. cnews and later inn. Then someday people discovered that > unix or better all filesystems have a problem with millions of files so > they switched to containers e.g. multigigabyte files with a much more > simplified way of accessing e.g. an index saying - article A starts at > offset 55605 and its size is 5500 bytes.
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