billions of files, ext3, reiser, and ls -al

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Byron Sonne wrote:

> When I had a dir with a proverbial billion files in it, under reiser an
> ls -al would throw an error like 'too many arguments'. I reinstalled my
> system last night, converted to ext3, and now ls -al doesn't throw and
> error anymore.
>
> If one were a betting person, would you be inclined to think the success
> is due to (1) new file system or (2) modifications to the ls program?

    More likely you used a different command. If you just do 'ls -al',
    you would not get 'too many arguments'. If you do 'ls -al *' you
    will.

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