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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: ext2/3 subdirectory limit [WAS: Choosing and tuning Linux file systems]
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:35:56 -0700
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:54:35AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> I've heard reports of programs that attempt to optimize recursive
> descents by counting the number of directories found so far and
> comparing it with st_nlinks.

Some versions of find do this.  Breaking these semantics I think would
be painful for some people.