alt Hacker NewsWell I have a directory with a couple million JSON files and ls/du take minutes.
Most of the coreutils are not fast enough to actually utilize modern SSDs.
Well I have a directory with a couple million JSON files and ls/du take minutes.
Most of the coreutils are not fast enough to actually utilize modern SSDs.
What’s the filesystem type? Ext4 suffers terrible lookup performance with large directories, while xfs absolutely flies.