Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze
On 14 Jul 2004, at 8:39, Patrick Barnes wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:17:14 -0500, Kat <gertie at visionsix.com> wrote:
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> > Data mining, and discovering after 2 days, the directory was full, and there
> > was no room to store more data, unless i came up with an artificial way to
> > categorise the data, and the data from other programs, and a different more
> > complicated method to merge and search the datum. It's like,, i haveto know
> > how much data there is, in what form, before i can even store the
> > 10megabytes
> > on a 10gig drive??
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> > Kat
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> Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat... oops...
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> What's wrong with EDS with/without EuSQL? or what about bucketing all
> of the files into subfolders? put all the A* files in subfolder A, all
> the B* files in subfolder B, etc. It makes it easier to find whether a
> file exists that way. Or even some hashing function, and as many
> folders as the OS can handle?
> If '95 can handle the number, then any win platform after that should do fine.
The number of folders per folder would be the same as the number of files per
folder. But as for the solution, merging all the files into one file would be a
real disaster for me. But i have made /a/ and /b/ and etc folders, and
subdivided the files on that basis. I don't expect that will be a working
solution for very long.
I am seriously considering digging out an olde TP smartdrive/ramdrive i did 8
years or so ago, and revamping it (or recoding it into Eu form), to recognise
overflows from the win/dos limits, making drive letters obsolete, and making
folders like /a1/ , /a2/ , etc, all show up as being in /a/ in some cases. I
dunno. I hear nix doesn't have the same limits, but i prefer to see an OS
working in real life before i dedicate hours to learning how to fix it when it
breaks.
What i particularly need is an OS that doesn't tie up the drive with a
scandisk after abnormal shutdown, and which i can run simple tasks on, like
a lan fileserver. The only person i know in real life who has ever used nix said
it could not be done with a windows box on the lan, so that shot down using
nix.
Kat
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