listing a huge amount of file on one file system

[Esquivel, Vicente]

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.

Vince 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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
> 
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