From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 12:33:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904B637B406 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6FJX6810585; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Philip Murray" , Subject: RE: Many directories or many files? Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:33:06 -0700 Message-ID: <004901c10d64$f8e173a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <002101c10d27$d69b1d60$0300a8c0@sparlak> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Perhaps a lot of directories and a mysql database that listed a description of the file and a directory location and filename would fit the bill. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Philip Murray >Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 5:15 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Many directories or many files? > > >Hi, > >I have a large library of photos (>100,000, Real Estate) and at the moment >I'm storing them in a big dump split up by a few directories. > >I'm getting to the point where I have ~8000 files per directory. I was >wondering whether I should write some kind of hashing function and have lots >and lots of directories, or whether it's best to have more files per >directory? > >Also, if anyone knows of a Free image/media storage system that I can use, >that would be wonderful. > >I also looked into storing them in a mysql database, but I'm pretty sure it >couldn't handle it. > >Cheers > >-------------------------------- - -- - - - >Philip Murray - webmaster@open2view.com >http://www.open2view.com - Open2View.com >------------- - -- - - > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message