From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 5:10:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8B937B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 05:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@open2view.com) Received: from sparlak ([210.54.112.145]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz with ESMTP id <20010715121019.BWSL4991820.mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz@sparlak> for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:10:19 +1200 Message-ID: <002101c10d27$d69b1d60$0300a8c0@sparlak> From: "Philip Murray" To: Subject: Many directories or many files? Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:15:29 +1200 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 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