[LUNI] in search of filesystem wisdom

[Brian Sobolak]

On 9/8/07, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:57:59PM -0500, Kenneth P. Stox wrote:
> > UFS2 does not have on disk indexing, nor does it use B+trees for
>
> Thanks, I've been having a hard time finding a simple, straightforward
> statement like this online.  I have come across plenty of sotries about
> the hassles of having so many files in one place, but mostly they're
> about the shell and tools' limits.  Did find one that was a little
> scary (both relevant and pretty recent):
>

A huge amount of the FreeBSD documentation is done through the mailing
lists.  In my experience, if you send a question to
questions at freebsd.org you get quite well-reasoned responses.  There
are even special lists for the filesystem on FreeBSD:

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/

brian


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