Quoting Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > the manipulation of file attributes that is tough for files. I'd say > there are not many (if any) > filesystems that can readily handle millions of files in a directory. Indeed. In my previous job we had one with 80000 on ext3 and it was a pain to do anything with it. I never got the chance to explore some of the large directory optimisations in ext3 but I don't think even those would cope easily with hundreds of thousands or millions. And nowadays those numbers are easily reachable... -- Cheers Nuno Souto -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l