Re: VFS
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:17:23 +0000 (GMT)
> > innxmit a list of inode numbers avoided the overhead of opening a file in
> > a dir with potentially thousands of other files. I never tried these
> > patches, so I can't say how well it actually works.
>
> Rumors say the gain is about 30-40%.
On per article feed time. Note btw that this is a sort of specialist case
and the hack was done by one of the freenix top 10 sites so they have
specific reasons. The next generation of INN supports arbitary article
databases, so you can go around write newsfs if you want ;)