Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Florian Weimer]

* Matthieu Moy:

> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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+.
>
> Do you have  a reference on this?  I've just made the test  on an ext3
> filesystem, and reading  10000 files of 1 lines  was incredibly faster
> than 1 file of 10000 lines.

s/faster/slower/, right?

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