[Asterisk-Users] New sounds also now in CVS

[Chris Lee]

As a sugestion, store the sounds in a soundlib tree, hashed or 
categorised (boolean (yes, no, true,false, up, down etc.),numbers, 
caledar(day, date, time etc), state, weather etc) and dont duplicate any 
sounds then make a sounds tree with virtual categories and sim link to 
the files needed.
This keeps the directory sizes down and allows for sound sets to be 
built up with all the words they use in them.
It also allows sounds to be added as needed rather than requiring all 
sounds to be part of a distribution.

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:

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>>Although the OS may cache that information, the userland process
>>can take quite some time to process a very full directory.  I've had
>>this happen quite a few times with Linux ext2 filesystems, where the
>>fileglob * exceeded bash's limit of 32,768 characters.  /bin/ls on
>>those directories took several minutes before the first results were
>>given.
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>>I'll additionally comment that the directories I was working with were
>>not normally that full, but was a side effect of a process dumping
>>lots of little files into a directory when something went wrong.
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>>On a slight tangent, NT4 had a practical limit of about 300 directory
>>entries before attempting to process the directory became unbearably
>>slow.
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>>-Tilghman
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>A couple of things, searching a directory for a specific name tends to be
>a linear search through the directory (unless the filesystem uses binary
>trees, like ReiserFS...), "ls" is a bad example of a command, it is more of
>a worse case example.
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>ls will read the entire directory, sort it, then do a stat() on every file
>listed.  All of this is done before it formats the output.  So, you have to
>wait until it is all done, before you see the first character output.
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