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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.
Date: 22 Feb 1996 20:21:11 GMT
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geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) writes:

> 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?

BSD uses a filesystem with linear directories, but the directory
contains just an pointer to the i-node information (unlike e.g. OS/2,
where the directory contains the equivalent of an i-node itself).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)