[sldev] SL Database purge

[Tateru Nino]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:57 -0700, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
>   
>> I don't have much faith in the "files in a folder" approach as from
>> what I remember from my operating system class (quite a while ago),
>> filename searches are linear searches.
>>     
>
> Implementation dependent. ext3 has hashed directory lookups these days,
> among others.
>   
All a filesystem is is a specialized form of database. There's nothing 
magical about databases.

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