Need help badly...

[Christopher Hicks]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> I can't remember whether Linux ext2 implements
> directories as lists (bad) or trees (good).

This:
        http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
seems to indicate that it's a list.

> Irix dynamically changes between lists and 2 different types of tree
> depending on the number of files in a directory, and it flies as a
> result.

You can also run xfs (Irix's filesystem) on Linux if it has performance
characteristics that would be valuable.

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