Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and | From | James Antill <> | Date | 23 Jun 1999 14:37:47 +0100 |
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Bill Huey <billh@mag.ucsd.edu> writes:
> > you havent tried this, have you? The new 2.2 kernel includes a rather fast > > file namespace cache implementation, it takes ~5 microseconds to look up a > > file. Too slow? > > Things like .so file in /usr/lib, icons in /usr/something/ will be automatically > skipped since this stuff is contained within the application or OS resource fork, > so the search space for a particular file under HFS is much smaller in MacOS > than with Win32/Unix since everything is treated as a file within those OSes. > > That's why a rather broken MacOS can search for a file name much faster than > Win32/Unix, because there aren't that many files to search in the first place. > > All the libs/icons/sound file are not file within the FS.
Which is great on a _single user_ system like a Mac. But shouldn't be done on a multi user system, as all of the above are just defaults which can be overridden by multiple users at the same time.
-- James Antill -- james@and.org
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