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> and I'd be curious if anyone has ever encountered something like this in the real world. Not that many, no, but I can tell you from professional experience t
by yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> and I'd be curious if anyone has ever encountered something like this in the real world.
Not that many, no, but I can tell you from professional experience that real life Linux systems get really weird when you have merely tens of thousands of files in a directory, and it would be kind of nice if that were fixed.
- yencabulator 3y agoThat used to be true, but ext4 htrees fixed most of the Linux issues in 2002. These days, most of the stupid resides firmly in the userspace consumers, making assumptions like "readdir a whole directory into an in-memory list". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTree
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoOf all the times for me to not write out GNU/Linux, you're telling me this is the one time the GNU part actually is the important part?:) (Though in fairness, ex. ls did become... kind of functional when run as `ls -f`)