you are in an fs with millions of small files

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20050608082727.GA23674 at orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
            Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> writes:
: On 2005-06-08 11:03, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
: >> The comparison function is known at the time the directory entries are
: >> read, so it should be a simple matter to read them into a red-black
: >> tree instead of a singly- linked list.  I'm working on a patch.
: >
: > Thanks :)
: 
: This would require updates/changes to all the users of fts.h too?

Are there ABI issues as well?

Warner