[Gllug] lots of little files

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sat Oct 15 10:02:55 UTC 2005


Richard Jones wrote:
> I hope the files aren't all in the same directory, or else ext3 is
> going to behave very badly.  Limit yourself to max 10,000 files /
> directory.


ext3 has directory indexing, it speeds this kind of thing up a lot.

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