From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 11:29:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.saqnet.co.uk (smtprev.saqnet.co.uk [195.2.128.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E033C37BF9F for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoff@productivity.co.uk) Received: from helios (dialup137-44.saqnet.co.uk [195.2.137.44]) by smtp.saqnet.co.uk (Switch-2.0.0/Switch-2.0.0) with ESMTP id e5LJTwQ29716 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:29:59 GMT Received: from 192.168.57.1 by helios ([192.168.57.1] running VPOP3 - Unregistered) with SMTP for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:31:18 +0100 Message-ID: <00ec01bfdbae$e435d970$0139a8c0@helios> From: "Geoff Caplan" To: Subject: Directory structure for many files Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:31:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Server: VPOP3 V1.3.0b Unregistered Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks I am building a website for deployment on FreeBSD. The site will contain over 40,000 jpegs. My question is this - for best disk-read performance, how should I structure the directories? - How many sub-directories can you place in a directory, and ... - How many files can you place in a sub-directory ... ... before performance begins to degrade? For ease of admin it would be convenient to place all the jpegs in one directory, but I assume that this would be unwise. I would be more than grateful for any advice Thanks Geoff Caplan British Goldsmiths geoff@productivity.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message