Re: [dev] Re: coreutils / moreutils - DC a directory counter

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:47:38 -0400

Its called unionfs if I recall
On Jul 25, 2013 9:28 PM, "Thorsten Glaser" <tg_AT_mirbsd.de> wrote:

> Calvin Morrison dixit:
>
> >I was sick of ls | wc -l being so damned slow on large directories, so
>
> What, besides the printing and sorting, is the slow part anyway?
> Is it the VFS API or just the filesystem code?
>
> In the latter case… could workarounds exist? Someone asked this…
> http://fenski.pl/2013/07/looking-for-a-specific-fuse-based-filesystem/
> … on Planet Debian this night.
>
> Something to think about. (No further input from me, besides
> mumbling that I had a vague idea of similar concept and wouldn’t
> be surprised if something like that already existed, and probably
> only in the Plan 9 world…)
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> --
> (gnutls can also be used, but if you are compiling lynx for your own use,
> there is no reason to consider using that package)
> -- Thomas E. Dickey on the Lynx mailing list, about OpenSSL
>
>
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