[ILUG] file management

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:09:24PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> > 1500 files in /usr/bin!"  well golly gee, when i used mh i had over
> > 3000 files in ~/Mail/outbox.  and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or the much nicer
> just to address the mail point..

but you didn't.

> that's irrelevant, cause you use mailer to access that information. 
> the mailer is your interface. how the mailer stores that data is it's 
> choice.

no, that wasn't my point.

the most sensible argument against files in /usr/bin is performance.
i.e. lots of files in a dir are slower then lots of files in many dirs.
my response is that that certain apps use lots of files in a single dir,
so kernel folks should be solving that problem (which they are).

kevin

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