> I did some testing about optimal number of files per folder for our package
> format and 3750 files per directory are way too many. The file system is
> much 
more efficient if you spread those files into sub-folders. We got the
> best 
performance with a 3-level sparse folder index (files are stored on
> the third 
folder level).



That's interesting. If I cut the files to 1875 per folder, the save takes
half as long. The time cost seems very linear.

What did you find to be a good max per folder?

Trygve



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