On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:25:49 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

> Le 13/10/2025 à 17:07, Peter via Dng a écrit :
> > In my limited understanding of file systems, Btrfs removes that
> > factor. Ext4 is the current default in most Linux releases. Btrfs is
> > optional and aimed to replace Ext4 as default.
> >
> > Apparent conclusion: limit files/directory to 50 or so in Ext, or
> > shift to Btrfs.
>
>     My understanding is limited also and this is why I dislike Btrfs. I
> embraces too many concepts, such as snapshots, RAID and wtf. I prefer to
> stick to the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy and use md for
> RAID, and a simpler filesystem. The best of all has long been Reiserfs,
> but it has been deprecated recently; therefore I switched to Ext4, which
> seems to me the less bad, despite its shocking lost+found directories.
>
>     There's no reason to put thouthands of files per directory, but
> lazyness. Some organization is necessary, at least for the mind.

....and usrmerge.

>
> - -    Didier