Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 04:03:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006220400050.8079-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000621234237.nicole@unixgirl.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Nicole Harrington. wrote: > > Hello > I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like > around 2 million... > > Assuming FreeBSD 4.0-Stable with Soft Updates, what is a sane number that can > be handled per directory? Softupdates doesn't really help with large directories. The limiting factor is that directories are unsorted so opening a file is a linear search on the directory. Break your files into subdirectories and then maybe another level or two of subdirectoies. Try to keep the directories balanced. Ideally, the path is a perfect hash on the filenames. Still, you might want to think about a DB or somethign other thana large directory for storing 2 million files. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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