Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:07:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? Message-ID: <200006230707.JAA14579@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000622203156.nicole@unixgirl.com> from "Nicole Harrington." at "Jun 22, 2000 08:31:56 pm"
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> >> 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 would not go above 1K, probably even below so that a directory fits in 1-2 pages. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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