Re: rsync to ext2 filesystem issues

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El lun, 7 sept 2026 a las 10:44, RVP (<rvp%sdf.org@localhost>) escribió:
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> On Mon, 7 Sep 2026, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
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> > Now rsync stopped into another file among the Mozilla firefox
> > directory that owns trillions of files.
> >
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> Is that number metaphorical, or are there literally 10^12 files somewhere?
> And where? On the FS, or in a single dir., or in some tree, or what?

Yes, it is metaphorical, when I arrive home I will tell you the actual
file count.

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> I vaguely recollect a PR (or something) on the MLs where creating or deleting
> millions of files at once under NetBSD hung the system, but, the same test
> worked on FreeBSD and Linux. Can't locate that email at the mo'.

:-)

>
> -RVP