In message <20050120.183744.70928231.he@uninett.no>, Havard Eidnes writes=
:
>> Is the performance of manipulating a single direcory with
>> 45,000 entries even something we care about?  Who would ever
>> put 45,000 files into a single directory?  Who would even put
>> 100 files into a directory if getting a directory listing takes
>> two or more screens just to display?
>
>Yes, I think we care or should care.
>
>Think MH folder system or Maildir setup, and add in users who
>have an ever increasing number of messages in their folders.
>That's not exactly an uncommon usage scenario, at least in my
>surroundings.

Indeed.  Your note was message 9136 in my Mail/netbsd directory.  I =

just did a 'folder -pack', so I really have that many messages -- files =

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