From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 0: 6:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096DA37B55D for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA14579; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:07:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200006230707.JAA14579@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? In-Reply-To: from "Nicole Harrington." at "Jun 22, 2000 08:31:56 pm" To: "Nicole Harrington." Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:07:27 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like > >> around 2 million... > > > > that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call > > those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more > > reasonable # of files per directory. > > Well.. Yea that's the idea.. But what is a reasonable number? 10K 100K etc. i would not go above 1K, probably even below so that a directory fits in 1-2 pages. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message