Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:28:40 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Is any file system on Linux appropriate for very large directories? |
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Eric Benson wrote: > > Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. The near-unanimous > recommendation: use subdirectories! I had considered this idea, and in > fact I will probably do it. >
You could also get a hardware raid (directory lookup's go faster when you share the load on the fs over several disks), it'll also give a more robust disk subsystem (ie a disk dies, and you don't louse all the data). Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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