Subject: Re: "too many files" in an FFS dir?
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/20/2000 10:34:22
On Wed 20 Dec 2000 at 09:32:01 +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> BTW: I didn't realise that softdep had solved at least a chunk of the
> performance issues with large directories. That's good to know.

I am wondering how/why this is the case. From what I read about soft
dependencies, this could be only a fortunate side-effect, because it was
not one of the design goals, right, just improving write/update
performance?

> Luke.
-Olaf.
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