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Subject: Re: UFS2 limits
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>
> With the implementation of UFS_DIRHASH the practical limit on the
> size of directories is now a great deal larger. In particular
> the slow down caused by linear search through the contents has been

but - try making (by shell script for example) empty files.

it creates it fast and rapidly slows at about 320000 on my machine.

i have UFS_DIRHASH