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

[Byron Sonne]

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?
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