Alain Spineux wrote:
> Some hint :
>
> - use a partition dedicated for that, that you can format every time
> you need to reset it.
> - try other filesystem. Some filesystem are faster for delete operations.
> - try to change the journaling during the delete operations. If you
> use ext3, I'm thinking about something like:
If you are going to change the way you store the files, just break them
up into subdirectories that each only hold a few thousand files. That
makes the lookups and other operations much faster.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com