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Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec



Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
>> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
>>
>>> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:03:01PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
>>>>>> These are two questions: Q: What filesystems... ? A: Every one of them 
>>>>>> with the possible exception of FAT and Minix.
>>>>>
>>>>> ext2 doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> Convert it to utilize directory hashing. The ability is there but iirc
>>>> isn't used by default.
>>>
>>> What does the default Debian install do?
>>
>> Afaik the good, old, slow linear list. With that file open/stat is
>> O(n) and ls also O(n) (cause you keep reading the dir instead of
>> starting at the top each time).
>
> In which case, we do have "that bug".

Would you agree that "that bug" should be fixed (in Etch), irrespective
of whether the FHS is also changed to split /usr/lib?

Martin



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