We store not just filenames but the files themselves in a B-tree. It works,
it's faster, try it. http://devlinux.org/namesys
Hans
-- Get Linux (http://www.kernel.org) plus ReiserFS (http://devlinux.org/namesys). If you sell an OS or internet appliance, buy a port of ReiserFS! If you need customizations and industrial grade support, we sell them.Martin Schulz wrote: > > Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi> writes: > > > There has been talk about having B-tree on-disk datastructures > > for directory processing. Nothing visible of it yet. > > IIRC, Reiserfs implements a tree-like strukture. Other possibilities > include subdirectories with hash-values as names, as used for the > "netscape.cache" directory. > > -- > Martin Schulz schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de > Uni Karlsruhe, Institut f. wissenschaftliches Rechnen u. math. Modellbildung > Engesser Str. 6, 76128 Karlsruhe > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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