On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:22:41AM +0200, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

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> Hello, may I know of limitations on supporting large directories (over 5
> million files) with small files
> (less than 10 KB) under FFS/FFS2?
> This is for a research project under AMD x86 with SATA Disk[s].

Directories are linear structures. There's caching, but it will be
slow. Create subdirecties. As a rule of thumb, restrict yourself to a
few ten-thousends of files per dir.

	-Otto