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Jeremy Chadwick(koitsu@FreeBSD.org)@2008.11.08 18:40:46 -0800:
> I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend
> you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a
> directory structure.  Software which has to iterate through that
> directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as
> time goes on.

On a related note there are filesystems that handle many
files/directories very quickly. They use alternate tree data structures
that behave quicker. ReiserFS is one of them. I believe XFS does quite
well too. FreeBSD should have adapted XFS in addition to ZFS. ZFS is a
resource monster. Shame, really. XFS is freely available in Linux for a
number of years. Hammer, the new FS for FreeBSDs is available for
DragonflyBSD.