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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Big directories vs. many directories
Message-ID: <638@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 23:20:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 23:20:30 1987
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In article <5215@jhunix.UUCP>, ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
> I have a question about searching your directory path.  Is it more efficient
> to have many small directories in your path, or to have fewer, larger
> directories?

Fewer, larger ones. When you know the name of a file, large directories are
better. When you don't know the name, small directories are better. In your
path you're looking for a known file name. A single large directory is not
going to need more than a few of disk hits before it finds the file. A
lot of small directories will require 1 or 2 hits in each directory.
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