you are in an fs with millions of small files

[Randy Bush]

>> 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?
> 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).

the app is apache

randy