Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 17:09:35 -0400 (EDT)


> it was due to trying to put many thousands of files into a single flat
> directory.

exactly. ext2 (and many other FSs) are simply not designed for obscenely
large directories. it's unclear why Joerg brought up this rather obvious strawman.

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