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

[Zu Zhihui]

2007/1/30, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org>:
>
> 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?


I think the reason is neither (1) nor (2). It's caused by glibc. If you
modify glibc and re-compile the ls program, it should be ok.

    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.


Agree
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