Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 09:24:08 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem Message-ID: <20020505132408.GA34282@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20020505084827.GA3688@quic.net> References: <200205040019.UAA13780@illustrious.cnchost.com> <3CD32F43.327CDA46@mindspring.com> <20020504041936.GA19646@quic.net> <3CD3FB02.3EC1DA29@mindspring.com> <20020505084827.GA3688@quic.net>
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Putting quill to paper and scribbling furiously on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 04:48 , utsl@quic.net missed achieving immortality when he said: > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 08:15:14AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > utsl@quic.net wrote: > > My take on an application that doesn't scale is that "fixing" > > the application by changing the behaviour of the underlying > > system is just propping up bad code. Bad code deserves to > > lose. So if someone wrote an application like that, it's just > > as well that the programmer who failed to consider scaling > > issues lose out to the programmer who considered them. After > > all, it's very likely that the failure to consider scaling > > issues is more of an "all or nothing" thing, and that the > > failure to consider one means that solving it in the OS will > > just expose the next one. There's really no way you can make > > the OS behave perfectly for all applications. At some point, > > applications programmers will have to learn how to program, > > or all bets are off. > Yes. Most people that supported the application I described would have > liked to catch the application programmers in a dark alley. People who > put 100,000 files in a single directory deserve what happens to them, > IMHO. Like the old dumb blonde joke about the secretary filing all the letters under L. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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