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Date:      Tue, 07 Jun 2005 07:30:31 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files
Message-ID:  <42A59367.6060307@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <42A4D5D0.9040500@elischer.org>
References:  <17059.7150.269428.448187@roam.psg.com> <42A4D5D0.9040500@elischer.org>

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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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