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 Also just FYI. Ext4 filesystem stores directory structure as a linked list, so search and access time increases linearly with the number of nodes in a directory. The best way to kill performance is to create 100000 subdirectories lmao.

Which is to say, Ext4 sucks immensely. 
 @Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt:  32TB in ext4? Wow... XFS should be the right choice for any filesystems >1TB, imo.