Too many files

[Peter Samuelson]

[Igor Morgado <igor at gvi.com.br>]
> I have a directory called A, shared as A, and in A there is 210000
> (yes two hundred and ten thousand) files, with 115K each one, there
> is biggers and smallers, but.... And when I try see one of these
> files I wait 8 minutes.

This is one of the main reasons reiserfs was written.  Directories this
large are horribly inefficient in most filesystems, ext2fs included.

  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/reiserfs/

Peter