On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:28:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > get around 40,000 files in one single directory. Some filesystems > such as JFS (and I think, not sure, XFS and ReiserFS too) store > directies in B+ trees and are specifically designed to handle large I know that ReiserFS does this. XFS is supposed to be better for large files while Reiser is better for small files, but perhaps XFS uses B-Trees anyway, it seems to have every other feature... ;-)