Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 14 Jul 1998 01:03:14 +0200 |
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Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com> writes:
> Somebody wrote a Usenix paper based on this idea, and his answer was yes, for > most systems, the directories are small enough that caching all of them is > effective.
That is what Novell servers do. They keep the complete directory tree in ram. I'm not sure if it is a good idea on a general purpose OS though.
-Andi
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