Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/12/07 17:59

Geoff Berrow wrote:
> Message-ID: <378bb$45a7bf44$8259c69c$19192@news1.tudelft.nl> from Rik
> contained the following:
>
>>> I had a devil of a job recently trying to store an html file that had
>>> loads of auto generated JavaScript in it (a crossword puzzle). My
>>> quick and dirty solution was to save it as a file and then simply
>>> store
>>> a reference to it. This is fine if you don't want to do any data
>>> processing on the content.
>> If there are reasonably few html snippets/pages it could be OK. Wouldn't
>> want to try it with 1000+ files though, the filesystem becomes a
>> bottleneck.
> I couldn't say. I always thought that's what the filesystem was good
> at.

Much depends on what file system you are using, some are good at many small
files, others good at a few large ones, you should always choose file system
based on what you are going to do, XFS is great if you want speed, but not
that good if you machine has little ram or may be instable (running
experimental software). ZFS and Reiser4 are two upcoming good file systems,
which both offers features that other file systems don't.



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//Aho

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