> It can mean reading meeelions of tiny files and seeking back and forth randomly. Tiny files are fine if you fetch them from NVMe and keep the queues fed, i.e

> It can mean reading meeelions of tiny files and seeking back and forth randomly. Tiny files are fine if you fetch them from NVMe and keep the queues fed, i.e. you need to issue multiple concurrent reads, not do it sequentially. Not being on windows helps too.