Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:37:31 +0100 From: void <float@firedrake.org> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010524003731.B25053@firedrake.org> In-Reply-To: <20010523091618.P87127-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:20:51AM -0400 References: <3B0B2824.949B119A@mindspring.com> <20010523091618.P87127-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org>
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:20:51AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > > Why is knowing the file names cheating? It is almost certain > that the application will know the names of it's own files > (and won't be grepping the entire directory every time it > needs to find a file). With 60,000 files, that would have the application duplicating 60,000 pieces of information that are stored by the operating system. Operations like open() and unlink() still have to search the directory to get the inode, so there isn't much incentive for an application to do that, I think. -- Ben "An art scene of delight I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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