Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Florian Weimer]

* Andrew Suffield:

>> But it's so much cheaper to read the data from a single, larger file,
>> than from lots of different ones.
>
> This is essentially wrong on all the interesting filesystems. It's
> equivalent on most of them, and a little slower to use one large file
> on NTFS and HFS+.

Huh?  What about seek overhead?

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