On Saturday 11 October 2025 at 15:56:51, Peter via Dng wrote:

> From:    Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???>
> Date:    Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:45:23 +0200

>
> > With an EXTn file system, and especially over NFS, more files per
> > directory is the *last* thing I need.
>
> Appears that in Ext4, files per directory won't be a problem.

It might not be for the machine, but it is for me.

I don't want to be searching through 10,000+ files when I could be searching
through 50 directories and then 200 files in the chosen directory.

> > Also, if my . file containing the directory itself gets corrupted,
> > I'm a lot worse off, the more files there were listed in it.
>
> Yes, reliable backup is essential.

Agreed, however once again I would far prefer to have to restore one directory
of 200 files (assuming the other 49 are still okay and didn't get corrupted)
rather than the single directory containing all 10,000 files.


Antony.

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