Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:07:21 -0700

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, bert hubert wrote:
> 
>>It is too easy to get into a O(N^2) situation. Git may be able to deal with
>>it but you may hurt yourself when making backups, or if you ever want to
>>share your tree (possibly with yourself) over the network.
> 
> 
> Even something as simple as "ls -l" has been known to have O(n**2)  
> behaviour for big directories.
> 

Ultimately the question is: do we care about old (broken) filesystems?

	-hpa