you are in an fs with millions of small files

[Scott Long]

Randy Bush wrote:
> to mirror someone's stuff, i need an fs which is happy with a jillion
> small files.  they're linux geeks, so suggested reiserfs.  but that
> appears (from -current's /sys/i386/conf/NOTES) to only have read-
> only support on freebsd.  is there another path?
> 
> randy
> 

See Suleiman Souhal's patch to re-introduce IFS.  IFS is ideal when the
naming of files is not important, but quick access to 'zillions' of 
files is important.  The downside is that your apps need to be written
to know how to use it (which isn't hard, but isn't portable either).

Scott