[TriLUG] Files in a directory question

[Robert Dale]

What's your performance criteria?
How often do you access these files?
What do you do with these files?

I had >600k files before I started indexing them via directories.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Steve Kuekes <steve at kuekes.homeip.net> wrote:
> Fellow triluggers,
>
> Here's a question, how many files should I put in one directory on an
> ext3 file system?  I've got an app that needs a bunch of jpg image
> files.  Right now its ~8,000-10,000 but later it could be 2 or 3 times
> that many.  So for performance reasons, should I split these files up
> into multiple sub-directories.  I can split them up according to the
> names and put just 100 or 1000 in each directory so all the files that
> start with a,b,c,d are in one folder called abcd, etc.  or I can just
> put them all in one folder.
>
> I know that theoretically it's probably a very large file number limit
> before it breaks, but for practical performance reasons in accessing
> files in the folder how many is too many?
>
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