Re: very large directories

From: Jan Van Sweevelt (jan-vansweevelt@freegates.be)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 16:20:07 EST


On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi> writes:
>
> > There has been talk about having B-tree on-disk datastructures
> > for directory processing. Nothing visible of it yet.
>
> IIRC, Reiserfs implements a tree-like strukture. Other possibilities
> include subdirectories with hash-values as names, as used for the
> "netscape.cache" directory.
>
> --

IBM JFS has B-tree structures for directories. It's in a very early development
stage.

Jan Van Sweevelt

Belgium

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