2009/11/25 River Tarnell river@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk:
i had a look at osm_hillshading/, but i couldn't see any especially large directories. the largest under tiles/ seemed to be about 3'000 entries, which is well within the capability of the filesystem (VxFS).
Ah, thanks for investigating. I was looking into using convert_meta but it isn't as straightforward as I thought. I'll still keep it in mind so that we can reclaim some space later and save on inodes.
Cheers Colin