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Scientists claim to have solved the 100B-file problem (blocksandfiles.com)
8 points by TangerineDream on March 10, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Hm. Good discussion. But pedantically, I take issue with the 'a few thousand files' on one computer estimation.

My computer has around a million and a half files. Just in the host OS. Then the various VMs have their part of a million files each.

Just makes the problem bigger I suppose.




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