On 4/14/2014 9:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Even if modern systems sort-of handle it, it still seems like a bad > thing to do when you consider that opening a file for writing has to > atomically decide whether that name already exists before creating it > - so other concurrent create/delete operations have to be blocked.
the better file systems (xfs, zfs, ntfs at least) use a b-tree directory structure, so finding a filename out of 10s of 1000s is very little overhead. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
