Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Huey <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:11:00 -0700 (PDT) |
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> 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.
Uh, maybe I'm speaking out of my butt.
Sorry, for the initial reaction.
Clear ?
bill
> -- mingo
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