FUD, fud-client

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Per Steinar Iversen wrote:

> > Well not great, but most people don't go around investigating seen state
> > for bogus users.
>
> These files consume diskspace. Call fud a sufficent number of times, each
> time with a different name and eventually these files will consume all
> available space. Also some filesystems, like ext2/3, have performance
> problems with directories containing huge numbers of files.

Of course they do.  So don't go around opening the seen data for users
that don't exist! ;)

-Rob

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