Re: Is any file system on Linux appropriate for very large directories?

Robey Pointer (robey@netcom.com)
Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:35:18 -0700 (PDT)


Matthias Urlichs said this, and I just had to respond:
>
> If anybody really does their lookups with opendir()/readdir(), they deserve
> to lose.

Well, enlighten me then, because I've been using them. I thought they were
the standard portable way to scan the contents of directories. What do YOU
use?

Robey