Dealing with many files

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📃 These are primarily notes, intended to be a collection of useful fragments, that will probably never be complete in any sense.


(When you want to watch/monitor a large amount of files for change, see File polling and event notification)


The below is more about the practicalities of keeping many files around.


Potential issues with many files: partly the filesystem, partly the uses

On permission checks

On stat()

Splitting off directories

Notes on fragmentation

some filesystem properties