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   powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:40:58 JST powersoffour

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   • Julia Evans

   @b0rk something *very* specific to a use case I used to have: too many files in a lustre folder (fewer than 1e6 tho!) which meant that, among other things, `ls -l` was vastly slower than `ls -1` because it would bottleneck on metadata server queries.

   This was a problem for importing python, because it walked lots of folders (esp with .egg files) on every import -- basically a DDOS against the metadata servers.

   (I may be misremembering the specifics, but I think this is broadly accurate.)

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:40:59 JST Julia Evans

     what are some problems you've run into in the terminal with folders? so far I have:

     * accidentally putting 1 million files in a folder, so it's impossible / very slow to list
     * you deleted a folder while you're still in it in the terminal, and everything gets weird
     * something about symlinks (what?)

     what am I missing? (only problems related to folders please!)