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How to best do zillions of little files?



On Wednesday 02 October 2002 11:02 am, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:53:58AM -0400, Scott Prive wrote:
> > I haven't done a bit of work in this area, but I have read how the
> > embedded and floppy Linux systems work: they conserve space (other
> > filesystem reasons also?) by creating a monolithic file that handles
> > everything, and just create links from the "files" to the file that has
> > everything.
>
> Sounds like a DBMS :-).

Seconded!

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