Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles

Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by kbolino on Friday August 03, 2012 @08:18AM (#4333650)

For what it's worth, most modern file systems (JFS, XFS, ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, ...) have logarithmic (or better) directory lookup times. This is achieved using hashes and b-trees (or even hash tables).

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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by lubutu on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:56AM (#4334286)

Fair point. Though anything using the standard POSIX dirent API would still get the performance hit (even if path resolution doesn't).

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