On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> I have a directory here containing a million files and it has not 
> caused any strain for zfs at all although it can cause considerable 
> stress on applications.

The biggest problem is always the apps.  For example, ls by default
sorts, and if you're using a locale with a non-trivial collation (e.g.,
any UTF-8 locales) then the sort gets very expensive.

Nico
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