Subject: Re: "too many files" in an FFS dir?
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/19/2000 09:25:27
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:03:42AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:

 > i'm just curious...would it be trivial to modify these tools to use a
 > hierarchical arrangement of files a directories as well (eg, instead
 > of opening file "1234567", one would open "12/34/567")?  i'd be
 > curious to see the difference there, since that was the usual attack
 > against the problem.

Right, well, what that does is help to address the problem of directory
lookups being linear searches in FFS.

We need an FFSng that has tree-structured directories.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>