[SLL] limit on number of files in a directory and hashed dir vs. flat dir file access time

[Chuck Wolber]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Ana wrote:

> Here's an interesting thread on the topic.
> 
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-07/3279.html

I disagree with the premise of his test. You cannot use "ls" and "rm" in a 
test like that because they index the entire contents of a directory 
before they actually do anything useful. This subverts the tree nature of 
ext3 directory parsing. 

A better test is to simply create "n" files and then calculate the average 
and standard deviation of the time to open and then close those files.