Posted by Rik on 01/12/07 18:26

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Rik wrote:
>> Geoff Berrow wrote:
>>> Message-ID: <378bb$45a7bf44$8259c69c$19192@news1.tudelft.nl> from
>>> Rik contained the following:
>>>> If there are reasonably few html snippets/pages it could be OK.
>>>> Wouldn't want to try it with 1000+ files though, the filesystem
>>>> becomes a bottleneck.
>>> I couldn't say. I always thought that's what the filesystem was
>>> good
>>> at.
>>
>> Well, it's not really designed to hold 1000+ files in one directory.
>> Split them up in subdirs (for instance on first character) and it'll
>> be much faster again.
>
> 1000 files are nothing, finding 10000 files takes not more than 0.02
> - 0.04 seconds on a good file system, but of course if using
> something like fat-file system, then things will be painful slow.

I have to admit I'm not that into filesystems, I can only say I've
witnessed it first hand on a FreeBSD server, where splitting the directory
in subdirectories containing up to about 500-800 files increased
performance considerably.

Using fat on a server is just asking for it offcourse, not to mention
highly difficult to maintain security.
--
Rik Wasmus

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