From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 7 12:31:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6842E16A43C; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:31:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CAC43D5D; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:31:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j57CUrfG008421; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:31:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42A59367.6060307@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 07:30:31 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050603 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> <42A4D5D0.9040500@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <42A4D5D0.9040500@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/918/Tue Jun 7 03:35:05 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Randy Bush , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:31:10 -0000 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------