[Gllug] Number or files per directory

[Dylan]

On Sunday 06 Jun 2004 16:57 pm, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:15:12PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > What is the point, with ext3, where the number of files in a
> > directory starts having an impact on performance or storage
> > efficiency. I realise that the more files the longer a directory
> > scan will take, but is there anything like the FAT issue of needing
> > a second directory listing for over a certain limiting number of
> > files?
>
> My experience, based on a maildir server I ran a few years ago, so
> things may have changed now, is that over 10,000 files in a directory
> and you'll start to see a slowdown.  Over 100,000 files and things
> tend to grind to a halt.  There is no practical limit to the number
> of files you can have in a directory, however.

Sounds fine - I don't think I'll be hitting that many jpegs or mpegs any 
time soon

Cheers

Dylan

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