From: Thomas Sondergaard <tsondergaard@...>
Date: 2002-06-18T04:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Are Unix tools just slow?

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 21:11, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On 6/17/02 11:36 AM, "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > If an SQL database is being used, then perhaps the _filesystem_
> > doesn't have to get traversed, but that certainly doesn't eliminate
> > the need to traverse the _database_.
> 
> But the difference is the difference between accessing *one* file and
> accessing *every* file. That's tremendous.

According to that theory I should be able to improve my file system
performance by using a filesystem that uses a single (big) file in
(another) filesystem.

hmm :-)

Thomas

PS! What happens if I apply that idea recursively? :-)