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Re:Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees by apjana on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:49AM (#22001604)
> This has replaced nnn for me and solves so many devops headaches

Can you please elaborate? Is that specifically because nnn[1] doesn't show a complete overview of the filesystem or some other features are missing?

One of the guiding principles of nnn is to generate minimum disk IOs.

Reading through a complete volume on a stuffed microSD or SD card attached to a RaspberryPi to list the filesystem (even if compacted) and then supporting filesystem changes dynamically is resource-intensive. nnn development is driven by minimum resource availability and usage.

[1] https://github.com/jarun/nnn

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Re:Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees by throwaway77384 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:41PM (#22004768)
You know, I hadn't considered that. This distinguishes nnn from Broot. I would revise my comment if I could, but in the absence of that ability, consider this my correction.
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Re:Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees by apjana on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:12PM (#22005135)
No problem! Just wanted to get some insight and explain things as they are with nnn.
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