[LUNI] in search of filesystem wisdom

[Martin Maney]

So I'm doing some work on a FreeBSD server, and I get to noticing that
when this goes live it will have some directories with tens of
thousands (guessing maybe 50K... for now) files in it.  Now, this
tickled memories of days when the best practice was to split
collections of hundreds of files up using something like
../first-letter/second-letter/lots_of_files_here scheme to avoid
performance issues.  What's the current thinking about this sort of
thing in a FreeBSD context?  What if there were going to be 500K files?

Thanks!

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