Interesting, it seems like #linux and #unix really do not handle large numbers of #file or #directories gracefully: http://be-n.com/spw/you-can-list-a-milli.. A #hackernews #comment points out that you get some #memoryleak like behaviour if you put too many files into a directory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281.. Seems to me as if the #ext #developers should have implemented #autoshrink anyway for completeness - this will only ever create #bugs ...