Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
>
> In general, having directories with a huge number of files tends to be
> a bad idea, you will most likely have performance bottlenecks with
> specific filesystems or tools. If possible, try to change the
> application to create two or three levels of directories using a hash
> on the filename and then creating directories with a small number of
> files on each of them.
This is particularly true of directories with a lot of activity.
Whenever an open for writing happens, the directory has to be searched
to see if the file already exists, and if it doesn't it must be created
- and the search/create must be atomic so the directory must be locked
while it completes.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com