Re: Speed problem in scanning a directory with 500,000 files

2001-04-24 Thread Thilo Mezger
leXX" with XX being the numbers from 1 to 500,000 then you could create 500 directories and put "file123456" into directory "123". Get the idea?! BTW, the reason why this is so slow is because ext2 is using a linear search through the inode-table. Cheers Thilo

Re: reiserFS in RH7.1?

2001-01-17 Thread Thilo Mezger
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> who knows there is people east of Rhode Island in the fabled countries of >> France, United Kingdom and Germany. :-) > There are a number of us actually. (Most of us don't have a separate /usr > partition though, so we don't notice. ;) ) > Wh

Re: 2nd try: python 2.0

2000-11-27 Thread Thilo Mezger
Tony Seward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to start using the Unicode support but I can deal without it for > now. Same for list comprehensions. Install Python 2.0 in /usr/local and call it with #!/usr/bin/env python2 or something like this. I just have to agree that upgrading

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread Thilo Mezger
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> IMHO, it would be a very good idea to have a 100% posix-compliant /bin/ >> sh without any extensions. /bin/sh should *not* be symlinked to /bin/ >> bash. > Did you read the documentation? > Here's another fragment: >

bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-07 Thread Thilo Mezger
Hi! There's a thread on the guinness list about sh/bash/bash2 and I just wanted to tell you my $0.02 of this /bin/sh vs. bash1/bash2 story. IMHO, it would be a very good idea to have a 100% posix-compliant /bin/sh without any extensions. /bin/sh should *not* be symlinked to /bin/bash. The rea