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