Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 1999 12:34:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Quota file format proposal |
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On 27-May-99 Riley Williams wrote: > OK, it'll be slower than reserving an entry for every possible uid or > gid and thus being able to go straight to the relevant record, but on > the other hand, it can take up considerably less disc space since only > the records for uid's or gid's with access to that partition need be > stored in its quota file. It's not even much of a slowdown either.
> Comments?
That sounds very slow. You may as well go with a proper b-tree if you want a structured indexed file.
J
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