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Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch
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bert hubert wrote:
> 
> That may be true :-), but from the "front lines" I can report that
> directories with > 32000 or > 65000 entries is *asking* for trouble. There
> is a whole chain of systems that need to get things right for huge
> directories to work well, and it often is not that way.
> 

Specifics, please?

	-hpa