Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:40:02 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? Message-ID: <3956C282.AD89DD0C@gorean.org> References: <XFMail.000622203156.nicole@unixgirl.com>
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"Nicole Harrington." wrote:
>
> On 22-Jun-00 Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >> I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like
> >> around 2 million...
> >
> > that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call
> > those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more
> > reasonable # of files per directory.
> >
>
> Well.. Yea that's the idea.. But what is a reasonable number? 10K 100K etc.
I heard 10k a while back from several sources I considered reliable.
I've always stuck to that limit and never had a problem on freebsd or
sun. I've also had very good luck with a hashed directory structure,
such as:
/a/b/c/abcfile
The level of hashing, and the number of characters per level can be
determined by your expected number of files, naming schemes, etc.
Good luck,
Doug
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