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Excellent case for not giving root.
by brndnhy 15y ago
Excellent case for not giving root.
- ars 15y agoWhat does root have to do with this?
- brndnhy 15y agoArticle illustrates numerous manner of ways of doing things incorrectly. The premise of the article is a bad precedent for stable environments: let's bend the OS so that it plays nicely with what's clearly misuse and misunderstanding of filesystems. The only way eight million files should ever end up in a single directory level is by accident, and that's not the case in the scenario outlined here.
- bcx 15y agoTypically there are on the order of 2000 files in a directory. It was a mistake.