Hal Miller is president of the SAGE STG Executive Committee.
Technology continues to advance.
So does the demand for it. There is a significant gap between those rates of growth, and the future looks difficult for those of us tasked with using the former to supply the latter. Let's look at my real-life situation as an example, then see what we might do about at least breaking the problem down into solvable chunks, if not solve it as a whole. This is all UNIX filesystem. We have known for years that the UFS is nearing an upper limit on directory size, and it appears to have other limits as well.