Posted by Chung Leong on 07/27/06 20:14
Miguel Cruz wrote:
> No (depends on the filesystem but in general no).
>
> However, with many filesystems the search time will get really bad when
> you have so many files in one folder.
>
> Instead you can make a little hash structure, it's easy to do and will
> provide you a significant performance boost.
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to create a ReiserFS volume and mount
the directory on it. I haven't use it myself but I've read that you can
gain an order of magnitude improvement in performance over ext2 when
you have lots of small files.
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