On 11/17/2015 5:58 PM, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
Le 2015-11-17 11:15, Martin Bähr a écrit :
it is not the users fault that filesystems were not designed for their
needs,
and while the users should be taught how to cope with this, i consider
their
expectation that having 2.5M files in a directory is ok, in itself is
actually
reasonable.
While I sympathetize with users on this, the reality is still there, and
will bite you in the ass if you don't take it into consideration.
Filesystems are simply not databases. They don't have configurable
indexes, they cannot be sorted, etc.
More importantly, it is quite likely to kill any backup systems that you
have running.
karin
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