Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 May 2001 12:22:50 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: Maximum files per Directory |
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:03:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your > > performance would have been abominable too. cyrus should be > > using heirarchies of directories for very large amounts of > > stuff. Right.
> But also showing, once again, that this particular scalability problem > really is a headache for some people.
If you do ls on that directory as an admin, you'll see, what the REAL cause of this headache is:
The application doing such stupid thing!
People (writing applications) building up such large directories should be forced to read every entry of it aloud.
Then they'll learn[1] and the problem is solved.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
[1] If not, let them repeat until they do. -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and had much fun >>>>>>>>>>>> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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