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"Hundreds of millions of files" sounds more like a database to me...
by oceanghost 5y ago
"Hundreds of millions of files" sounds more like a database to me...
- cloogshicer 5y agoI was mistaken actually. It's "only" about 600k files. Sorry, and thanks for mentioning it! I'll correct it above too if I can.
- oceanghost 5y agoNo worries. It just reminded me of a conversation I had with a colleague when I was a Solaris admin... He asked me what would happen if he put millions of very small files in a directory, I explained about filesystems and that each file would take up a 4k sector and space in the file, and that the behavior of the shell is undefined if there are more than 10,000 files in a directory as defined by POSIX... I'm pretty sure he tried it anyways :-)