Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 16:23:30 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Mr. K." <bsd@the.nu> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: efficient filesystem Message-ID: <17825.907532610@gjp.erols.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 15:47:20 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810041537420.14444-100000@the.nu>
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"Mr. K." wrote in message ID <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810041537420.14444-100000@the.nu>: > does freebsd have a filesystem which would be efficient with 10,000+ files > in a single directory? I have other possibilites such as manually > breaking the files into directories (f/i/file.gif) or possibly using my > mysql database but a filesystem which could add/delete/find files in log n > time is what I'm really looking for. Do the directory breakout shuffle. Without something like VxVS (Veritas Filesystem, not available for non-commercial OSen unfortunately), which has some sort of hashed directory structure if I understand it right, then you are reduced to linear searches for all operations. Even with VxFS, maintaining a large directory like that becomes unweidly for humans, and when I was running a 300,000 user mail system, we still used /var/mail/<first letter>/<second letter>/username/Mailbox .... Breaking it out into subdirectories makes everyones lives easier, including the machines .... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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