[CentOS] files in a directory limitation

[Feizhou]

Benjamin Smith wrote:
> Don't know what you're after - but I've found that having over about 1024 
> files in a directory gets sluggish on a number of filesystems. 

if you are going to walk through the directory, ext3 is reasonable okay 
I think ( what's sluggish for you/me? :D ). If you know what file you 
are after, XFS/reiserfs are fast even when there are hundreds of 
thousands of files in a directory. I cannot say the same for ext3 + htree.

> 
> So when I write code (EG: databases) with file attachments, I use an algorithm 
> that results in < 1024 files per directory. 

:) This would work also on FreeBSD boxes too. FreeBSD hashes the first 
thousand entries. Not sure about the other BSDs or Solaris.