> (please cc answers to the author, mail sorting is hard otherwise)
>
> > > In arla (a free AFS implementation), we manage a lot of files in a
> > > cache directory. If normal lookups are used, this is very slow, since
> > > lots of files lie in the same directory. This is speeded up somewhat
> > > by the directory cache, but this is not very effective if the file is
> > > not used for long and then suddenly used.
> >
> > Why aren't you using a multilevel cache directory??
>
> Because open-by-handle is even faster (O(1) directory operations) than
> multilevel directories (O(log n) directory operations).
Use a specially designed filesystem and the ordinary open(2) interface.
You can even implement something like that completely in user space
(using big, preallocated files, like INN's CNFS spool).
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