Too many files

[David Collier-Brown]

You wrote:
| I have a directory called A, shared as A, and in A there is 210000
(yes 
| two hundred and ten thousand) files

	Oops...  Unix directories doesn't scale reasonable to 
	such sizes.

	If a program is looking for something like 
		frogbnitz.19jan99.fred.32.dat
	you might consider using LD_PRELOAD to load a library
	which does allow you to split this into subdirs
	by transforming the open system call to an open call
	for frogbnitz/1999/19jan/fred/32.dat.

--dave
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