Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Special files in hostfs

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Jorgen Cederlof writes:
 > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 00:57:04 -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
 > > This is very very bad.  Now, you have just doubled the number of
 > > files in a directory.
 > > Some file systems can handle large file counts, others can't.  I see
 > > no reason to even have to depend on that.  Using a single, separate
 > > file, to store everything for a directory, seems less intrusive.
 > 
 > Doubling the number of files might be bad. But is it really that bad?
 > A factor 2 is not that much.

I don't know about that. Someone on another list was having
performance problems with ext2 and (I think) 500 000 files.

For small numbers, doubling doesn't do much. For large values someting
thart works well will become marginal or critical.