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Subject: Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files
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> what. all in one directory?
>> to mirror someone's stuff, i need an fs which is happy with a jillion
>> small files.  they're linux geeks, so suggested reiserfs.  but that
>> appears (from -current's /sys/i386/conf/NOTES) to only have read-
>> only support on freebsd.  is there another path?

turns out the person requesting the mirror did not get it.  linuxoid.
its a whole dir tree with at most 10k files per dir.  it's like a
news spool.

end of thread.  sorry to have bothered folk.

randy