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Nick Barkas(nick.barkas@gmail.com)@2008.11.19 14:29:24 +0100:
I know about dirhash, but it blows out at a few dozen thousand files.

There's is a nice discussion here:

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2008-11/msg00055.html