Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:48:25 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory Message-ID: <3E7207D9.7080906@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3E6E05B7.8060006@mac.com> References: <3E6D6A0F.5040704@potentialtech.com> <20030311053714.GG34011@dan.emsphone.com> <3E6DFC65.4050205@potentialtech.com> <3E6E05B7.8060006@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > [ ... ] > >> I'm writing a web-interface to file-sharing. It's back-ended by a >> metadata >> database and a filesystem based file store. > > Sounds like a pretty classic application for WebDAV. > >> The question I need to answer is: how many files can a directory >> contain before the system determines that no more files should be >> placed in it? > > When you have more than a few thousand files per directory, that's the > point where many platforms seem to slow down very significantly. > > What's the size range and average size of an item? Unfortunately, I can't know that at this time. I don't have any examples. > If you do something a little clever-- perhaps concat'ing small (< 8 K) > items together (keeping track of this with your metadata DB), and only > using seperate files for larger items-- you might be able to finesse the > situation. Might help. I'll consider it. I guess I'm just going to have to do my own research. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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