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The test was for a file system, not for a single directory. In the test I ran, I did use a thousand subdirectories (each with 1 million files).
One billion files on Linux
Posted Aug 19, 2010 18:27 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]
Posted Aug 24, 2010 1:06 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
One can only imagine you used a script to generate the files and directories. Either that, or you are a very fast typist! ;-)
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