El 7/9/26 a las 10:54, Ramiro Aceves escribió:
El lun, 7 sept 2026 a las 10:44, RVP (<rvp%sdf.org@localhost>) escribió:On Mon, 7 Sep 2026, Ramiro Aceves wrote:Now rsync stopped into another file among the Mozilla firefox directory that owns trillions of files.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.
I have connected remotely
netbsd-nuc$ pwd
/home/ramiro/.mozilla/firefox/527cpmj0.default-default-2/storage/permanent
netbsd-nuc$ find . | wc -l
2243
Definitely not trillions, only 2 thousand.
Regards.
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