--- "Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)" african_chief@bigfoot.com wrote:
I am not sure what precisely you want to use this for - but the simplest solution that I can think of is to use some sort of container for your files (e.g., a zip archive).
I need it for making a database of all my files (~100000) with some additional information in it (such as e.g. timetags, backup time, etc). Of course I could just use a copy of the file-system to another directory, but this is to slow (too many system-calls every time you need to create a file, etc) and it takes up too much space (I only need <20 bytes of data per file).
So the two main requirements to it is that is should be fast to look up files, and it shouldn't take up too much space.
I was thinking about maybe making a small FAT-look-alike-system...
Best regards
Preben Bohn
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