Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 03:30:21 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How many files in a directory is "a large number"? Message-ID: <3D008B3C.A5944FF7@pantherdragon.org>
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I'm building a file archive, and I know that when you have a large number of files in directory, that lookups get really slow. I've only ever heard people say "a large number." No real qualification. How many files can one have before the slow downs become readily apparent? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Millions? I need to know in order to set my archive with as few segmentations in the collections as possible without running into excessively slow lookups. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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