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		dekhn on April 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Elastic File System Petabytes of 20k files? I think you might want to use your filesystem more effectively.

buster on April 11, 2015 [–]

Well, what would it help in terms of NFS? You'd still have to tell NFS to read 20kB. If it's 20kB from one big file or one 20kB file doesn't matter much. it's common to have one file per email and the usual filesystem has no problem with that.

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