Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink?

Christophe Dupre (cdupre@risq.qc.ca)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:52:03 -0400

> Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com> writes:
>
> > Somebody wrote a Usenix paper based on this idea, and his answer was yes, for
> > most systems, the directories are small enough that caching all of them is
> > effective.
>
> That is what Novell servers do. They keep the complete directory tree in ram.
> I'm not sure if it is a good idea on a general purpose OS though.

Probably for general purpose workstations, it is not such a great idea. But for servers (file servers, web servers handling 1000's of small files & directories, and which have loads of RAM), this can be VERY interesting...

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