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by didgetmaster 1033 days ago
It used to be much more rare in the past. With 20 TB drives available today, it is much more common to be able to handle many more files. When I designed my file system replacement (www.Didgets.com), I didn't just put 'a million files' in the requirement; I put 100x more in it.

Now I have a system that will find subsets in just a second or two (even when the whole set contains hundreds of millions and any given subset might contain hundreds of thousands of matches). Here is a short video of a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw