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Subject: Re: Large Filesystem Woes
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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
>         Our main fileserver has a filesystem with 2.7e6 files and we
> are continually running into undocumented "features" (aka bugs) as a
> result of the large number of files.

Is 2.7e6 a typo for 2.7e9?  I can't imagine *any* modern file system
having trouble storing barely three million files.  My ~ alone has
almost a million.

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