[CentOS] files in a directory limitation
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Mon Nov 6 05:05:36 UTC 2006
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.
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