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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix question: files per directory
Summary: at least it works now
Keywords: how many can there be?
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Date: 13 Apr 89 03:45:49 GMT
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in the fifth edition, directories that could no longer fit in the directly
mapped blocks caused unix to crash.

nowadays, the only reason not have huge directories is that they
make a lot of programs REAL slow; it takes time to scan all those dirents.