24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
10:03 a.m.
It mostly has to do with the filesystem being used. The System V based extended filesystems (which most people know as "ext2" and "ext3") have the same history as the BSD filesystem ("ufs" or "ffs"), and neither is particularly efficient at handling a directory of more than 10k files or so.
ufs on FreeBSD is hashed. "options UFS_DIRHASH"
Just get a NetApp and be done with it :)
Cor