On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Esquivel, Vicente wrote: > I wouldn't need it if it weren't for a problem that we were having with > our Veritas Netbackup server not being able to backup this specific > server. So the Veritas support folks wanted to get a listing of the > files in that directory. You might want to tell netBackup to not sort the directory. See this posting: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/2005-January/026439.html I haven't tried it, but since you're talking to the Veritas folks anyway, you can ask them about it. I guess I don't need to tell you that fixing your application to not put 2M files in a single directory should be on your developer's todo list... This falls in the category of "if it hurts, don't do that". .../Ed > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > > McDougall, Marshall (FSH) > > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:00 AM > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: RE: listing a huge amount of file on one file system > > > > "One of our servers that is running on RHEL 4, has a > > directory that contains over 2 millions files in it and growing" > > > > Silly question: > > > > If the directory has over 2,000,000 files in it, why would > > you want to do an ls -l? Is there something more specific > > that you are trying to accomplish with a file listing? > > > > Regards, Marshall > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
