Danek Duvall wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:28:06AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> Long-term I have to believe that a small, lightweight database is going >> to be better than a directory with thousands of empty files. > > If we have to stat all those files, then yes, a single file would probably > be best. But right now, the only file we have to open is the directory > itself. Remember that the filesystem itself is a database, and, for a lot > of operations, quite an efficient one, at that.
I was thinking more of walking the directory structure instead of stating the files, but if we don't have to do that either... -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
