1. A method comprising: receiving a request to partition a first directory of a file system, wherein the request is received at a computing device coupled to a storage device, at least a portion of the file system is stored in the storage device, and the first directory comprises a plurality of entries; creating a partitioned directory in response to the request, wherein the creating the partitioned directory comprises updating metadata by creating an inode in the partitioned directory and linking the inode to an another inode in the first directory, the partitioned directory comprises a plurality of partitions, and the creating of the partitioned directory increases a number of points of access to the plurality of entries by virtue of the linking causing each partition of the plurality of partitions to comprise the metadata; distributing one or more entries of the plurality of entries to a corresponding partition of the plurality of partitions, wherein the distributing comprises sequentially traversing a list of the plurality of the entries, and for each entry of the one or more entries of the plurality of entries, creating a copy of the each entry of the one or more entries of the plurality of entries, and storing the copy in the corresponding partition; tracking a progress of the distributing using a transfer offset; and based on a result of tracking the progress, performing an operation while the distributing is ongoing, wherein the operation comprises at least one of accessing the first directory, or updating the first directory.