[Asterisk-Users] New sounds also now in CVS

Andrew Kohlsmith akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com
Mon Jan 19 12:37:54 MST 2004


> This is actually a bad idea.  While many filesystems today have binary
> tree directory structures, some still do not.  Allowing too many
> miscellaneous sounds in a single directory is not only difficult to
> browse, it may also consume inordinate amounts of CPU, memory, and
> user time attempting to process the directory structure.

I agree, but I would have figured that any modern OS would have cached, 
hashed and otherwise unfolded the directory structure into something 
ridiculously easy to access after the first read and parse.

Regards,
Andrew



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