> But also showing, once again, that this particular scalability problem
> really is a headache for some people.
If you do ls on that directory as an admin, you'll see, what the
REAL cause of this headache is:
The application doing such stupid thing!
People (writing applications) building up such large directories
should be forced to read every entry of it aloud.
Then they'll learn[1] and the problem is solved.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
[1] If not, let them repeat until they do.
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