On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 16:25:09 -0400, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I was told by a coworker that all UNIX varieties have to do an ordered > > list search when they have to preform any operations on a directory. They > > also stated that if there is more than 100k files in a directory, these > > tools would fail. > > I'll take that as a challenge. I have directories with several million files in them. Lookups of a single file seem to be fast, however I have found mv and cp are unexpectedly slow and use up lots of memory. So I expect there are some problems with the way that code was written. I also manually turned on directory indexing. I don't think that was the default until recently.
