On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Even if there aren't huge issues with doing this, it's an easily fixed thing. Allowing directories to have > hundreds of thousands of entries as a matter of course, even if it's something that causes no issues > in many cases, to me is an architectural issue. Even if modern systems sort-of handle it, it still seems like a bad thing to do when you consider that opening a file for writing has to atomically decide whether that name already exists before creating it - so other concurrent create/delete operations have to be blocked. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com