Russell Coker wrote on Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:21:52 +0100: > Mail serving with Maildir storage.
Same sort of thing here. Thousands of e-mail and news files in a directory, so displaying them in a GUI directory display window can be slow. Particularly if it is also getting attributes to display (from, to, subject, date, thread). This is under BeOS/BFS and can get a bit slow if the attributes end up in disk sectors far away from the inode for the file (but speed is good when block size (== inode size) is boosted up enough so that the attributes all fit in the inode). So, directory reading speed plus attribute reading speed are important to me. - Alex
