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From: unierik@uts.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Beauty of HFS
Message-ID: <UNIERIK.91Feb1103331@uts.uni-c.dk>
Date: 1 Feb 91 10:33:31 GMT
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Sender: unierik@uts.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen)
Organization: UNI-C
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In-Reply-To: time@tbomb.ice.com's message of 30 Jan 91 23:26:19 GMT


>Performance may be better, I have no data on that, but I do know that
>the Mac HFS starts to really choke when a directory begins to contain
>hundreds of files. I have not had time to research things, but we
>have seen a couple of cases where the Mac was disabled because it
>could not seem to deal with the enormous number of files in a directory
>(several hundred if I remember correctly).

Well -- I don't think HFS is the problem here. I have crated a folder
with about 25000 PICT-files in it. My application has no problem with
opening these files by name, but the Finder wont display the contents
of this folder -- and I don't blame it too much for not doing it ... :-)

regards
Erik Bertelsen
UNI-C, The Danish COmputing Centre for Research and Education.