you are in an fs with millions of small files

[Eric Anderson]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> what. all in one directory?
> 
> I've only had up to 500,000 files in one directory on FreeBSD.

The only problems I've had with a directory with millions of files is 
things like ls -al with attempt to sort the list, but the list doesn't 
fit into memory.  Access to the files is of course very snappy.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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