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29 Jul 2024 12:23:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trouble with large directory in Linux  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 2 Mar 2012 13:42:34
Message: <4f51149a$1@news.povray.org>
Le 02/03/2012 06:42, Darren New nous fit lire :
> On 2/28/2012 19:30, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> I did try exactly this actually, it printed "." and nothing else
> 
> Hmmm. There's a flag you can pass to find to turn off the optimization
> of counting the number of links on "." and not recursing afterwards, or
> something. I wonder if that would have helped. I wasn't aware find tried
> loading things into memory, but maybe you wound up with a hard link to
> itself in the directory (other than ".") or some such. I suspect file
> system corruption.
> 
> 
I'm more thinking about it: by default, it (ls) will try to sort the
filenames in alphabetical order... find the switch to disable that!


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