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Depends on the filesystem that you use, like Dynamo vs Postgres OP’s post probably involved an old filesystem. For example, ext2 did not index the files within

Depends on the filesystem that you use, like Dynamo vs Postgres OP’s post probably involved an old filesystem. For example, ext2 did not index the files within a directory, but ext3 introduced H-trees which made big directories much more feasible.

layer8 4y ago
Of course it depends on the filesystem. I’d be interested in what it is concretely, for each of the commonly used desktop filesystems.