drwxrwsr-x   7 owner group       4096 Sep  7 12:39 ./

drwxrwsr-x   4 owner group       4096 Sep  7 10:14 ../

drwxrwsr-x   2 owner group       4096 Sep  7 10:54 dir1/

drwxrwsr-x   2 owner group    335544320 Sep 26 00:30 dir_getsome/

drwxrwsr-x   2 owner group       4096 Sep  7 12:43 dir3/

drwxrwsr-x   4 owner group       4096 Sep  7 10:25 dir4/

drwxrwsr-x   2 owner group       4096 Sep 23 18:12 dir5/

 

dir_getsome is larger than anything I’ve ever seen.  I did a du on the directory and there is about 15GB of data with just over 3.8M files.  I suspect this is a sub-optimal ratio but is it so bad that the metadata for the directory needs to be so large?