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From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.
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Date: 21 Feb 1996 13:21:52 +0100
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Jerry Aguirre (jerry@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com) wrote:
: My misc.jobs.offered is nearly half a meg (for the directory, 
: not the articles).  It has over 22,000 entries. Every new article 
: requires Unix to scan that directory and compare every existing 
: article name to the new one.  

Is it *really* true that FreeBSD still uses a file-system with linear 
directories? For these kind of things B-tree's (or similar structures) 
are *far* more efficient. Is there a better file-system for FreeBSD
than the default FFS?

Greetings,
  Geert
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