[CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

[Alexander Georgiev]

2009/7/9, oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo <hhh735 at hotmail.com>:
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> After a quick calculation, that could put around 3200 files per directory (I
> have around 15 million of files), I think that above 1000 files the
> performance will start to degrade significantly, anyway it would be a mater
> of doing some benchmarks.

depending on the total size of this cache files, as it was suggested
by nate - throw some hardware at it.

perhaps a hardware ram device will provide adequate performance :

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hyperos-dram-hard-drive-block,1186.html