Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:20:28 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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> > it was due to trying to put many thousands of files into a single flat > > directory. > exactly. ext2 (and many other FSs) are simply not designed for obscenely > large directories. it's unclear why Joerg brought up this rather obvious > strawman.
... and blamed it on the overall kernel architecture.
Well, at least I learned something today: with the ext[23] largedir problem out of the way, Linux can be as much as five times faster than Solaris in certain, very common FS operations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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