On Feb 29 2000, nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> I suspect the answer is that the data structures used to represent
> directories are not well suited to efficient operations on extremely
> large directories, but I was just curious.
AFAIK, there are two possible things you should do to avoid
this:
* hash the files in two (or more) directory levels;
* if that's not possible, then use a filesystem whose
directory structure uses a tree instead of a linear list (it
seems -- but I'm not sure -- that reiserfs does this).
[]s, Roger...
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