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I meant regular "consumer" file operations - opening a folder with a few mil files and getting basic data like names/sizes, copying a few million files from one
by eviks 3y ago
I meant regular "consumer" file operations - opening a folder with a few mil files and getting basic data like names/sizes, copying a few million files from one folder to another, renaming, etc.
So definitely not read-only, not identical, not all tiny 0b or even 800b files (maybe <1mb is still tiny?) , and storage overead is a much lower priority vs latency of access and speed of operations
- crabbone 3y agoWhy would a consumer have a billion files in a directory? Your question reminds me of a famous (some fifteen-twenty years ago) question from MSDN forums. A poor soul complained that when they put 10K buttons on a form in the designer view in MSVS it comes to a grinding halt. And that's impossible to use the studio anymore. To which a bunch of respondents quickly replied: "but why tho? why do you need so many buttons on the form?" -- From the discussion that followed it became apparent that the poster wanted to reproduce the minesweeper game with a 100x100 board. What I'm trying to say is: if you have a problem where you think you need a billion of files all in one directory, it's easier to reformulate the problem than to try to find a solution for it.