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

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:27:06 +0200 (MET DST)


Hi,

>Matthias Urlichs said this, and I just had to respond:
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>> 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 d=
o YOU
>use?

I said "lookups", not "scans"... the difference being that I want to lo=
ok
up a specific file. In that case I can just try to open or stat it.

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