* David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> [050120 13:03] wrote:
> > A lot of systems are using "filesystem as a database" semantics
> > and just expect something like:
> > 
> >   user/key -> data
> > 
> > to scale indefinitely.
> 
> I know a company that hit the inode reference count limit, 32766 (or
> maybe 65534) subdirectories of a single directory!
> 
> I suspect that a linear search may actually be the fastest form
> of lookup for 'normal' directories - ie those smaller than a block.

I'd agree with that guess.

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