Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > with the possible exception of FAT and Minix. Q: are they used by a > default? A: Last time I installed Debian (15 days ago), it asked me if > I wanted my partition ext3, xfs, or reiserfs IIRC; I chose reiserfs, > and I am pretty sure finding a file in a directory in reiserfs is > O(log n) in the worse case. (Actually, I think that except for HUGE > directories [far larger than /usr/lib] it accesses two or three blocks > of disk in every case, hence being O(1)).
How many directory entries do you think fit in a block? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]