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 ...
Will certainly need to circle back to this some time - upgrading my #ext 4 #hdd 's so that the #filesystem doesn't start breaking: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/upgr.. #linux does a lot of things right, but definitely occasionally suffered extend ability issues. The next Y2K is just around the corner - perhaps I can #retire in 2038 on upgrading/repairing these mammoth systems.