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50. Management of many small files ( > 10000)
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The file system on stallo is designed to give good performance for large files. This have some impact if you have many small files.
If you have thousands of files in one directory. Basic operations like 'ls' becomes very slow, there is nothing to do about this. However directories containing many files may cause the backup of the data to fail. It is therefore highly recommended that if you want backup of the files you need to use 'tar' to create on archive file of the directory.
