15 Apr
2014
15 Apr
'14
5:16 a.m.
On 4/14/2014 9:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Even if modern systems sort-of handle it, it still seems like a bad thing to do when you consider that opening a file for writing has to atomically decide whether that name already exists before creating it
- so other concurrent create/delete operations have to be blocked.
the better file systems (xfs, zfs, ntfs at least) use a b-tree directory structure, so finding a filename out of 10s of 1000s is very little overhead.
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