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Re: Any problem with having 100,000 files

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Subject: Re: Any problem with having 100,000 files
From: Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:11:39 -0700
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On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:25:35PM -0400, Matthew Weigel wrote:

> > They  would be  spread out  over a  several directories.   For
> > curiosity, what is the limit in one directory?  If I had 5,000
> > files in one directory, what kind of things would be slow?
>
> Your best  bet would be  to test  this yourself.  Use  jot(1) to
> generate to  generate 5,000 filenames,  and pipe it to  xargs to
> run touch.

No need for anything so complex:

    $ touch `jot 5000`

b&

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References:
- Re: Any problem with having 100,000 files
  - From: "J. Scott Edwards" <sedwards@xmission.com>
- Re: Any problem with having 100,000 files
  - From: Matthew Weigel <Matthew_Weigel@t-pyxidis.fac.cs.cmu.edu>

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