On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:04:22AM -0400, fredex wrote: > Now, for performance reasons, it is often not a good idea ot have > many thousands of files in a single directory. As the number of files > grows large the time it takes to access a file grows larger. I haven't > looked into this on any linux file system, but on other unixes I've > observed delays reaching up into the whole-second region when many thousands > of files are in a single directory. Shouldn't be a problem on a new install of ext3 on modern Linux. See <http://lwn.net/Articles/11481/>. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
