Re: Quota file format proposal
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Sun, 30 May 1999 12:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
On 27-May-99 Riley Williams wrote:
> OK, it'll be slower than reserving an entry for every possible uid or
> gid and thus being able to go straight to the relevant record, but on
> the other hand, it can take up considerably less disc space since only
> the records for uid's or gid's with access to that partition need be
> stored in its quota file. It's not even much of a slowdown either.
> Comments?
That sounds very slow. You may as well go with a proper b-tree if you want a
structured indexed file.
J
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