Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:11:46 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory? Message-ID: <XFMail.000622171146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200006220731.JAA09401@info.iet.unipi.it>
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On 22-Jun-00 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > 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. > > Or use a single file and a cgi which extracts things from the right place. > In such a context, i assume that the best place to do the name lookup > is in the app, not in the kernel. Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) FYI 40000 in a directory really makes directory listings slow.. 2 million would suck :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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