From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 22 1:53:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kris.huntsvilleal.com (kris.huntsvilleal.com [63.147.8.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9D837C1F8 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 01:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kris.huntsvilleal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA18752; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 03:52:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 03:52:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Kris Kirby To: Don Lewis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? In-Reply-To: <200006220750.AAA07430@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Don Lewis wrote: > other ways of quickly finding the desired directory entry. Even so, > you probably still would want to avoid doing an "ls" or an "echo *" ;-) Heh. I once wrote a program that made 1K files until it ran out of disk space. It took the 386DX-40 about two days to run out of inodes. The purpose was to find some rather elusive IDE bad sectors. I soon tired of such attempts, as I spent two days writing and another two rm'ing the mess. newfs helped, but I had other bad sectors to deal with. I soon removed that hard drive. I think I smashed somewhere. I was once given a whole pile of 40 MB and 80 MB SCSI drives (3.5"). I broke a few but the novelty wore off. It's tiring work destroying hard drives. ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message