Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 13:16:27 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as >> you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite >> fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have disabled >> previewing, or thumbnails. >> >> How can I do to make this process faster? >> > > Slow to ls? reiserfs, xfs, btrfs, or the dir_index option and hash_alg > extended option of ext3. > > Is the directory fast to ls, but slow to render in a GUI? Problem is likely > with the GUI. > Sorry, it is only slow to GUI (nautilus). > How many files? ~25,000. > It may be better to convert to a "stepped" directory > structure. > > E.g.: > Instead of: > /home/abel > /home/alfred > /home/ada > [...] > /home/zelda > /home/zola > /home/zoolander > > Use: > /home/a/abel > /home/a/alfred > /home/a/ada > [...] > /home/z/zelda > /home/z/zola > /home/z/zoolander > Or: (usually only when names are fixed-length) > /home/a/bel > /home/a/lfred > /home/a/da > [...] > /home/z/elda > /home/z/ola > /home/z/oolander > > I'm most familiar with using this for ASCII names, but it can be converted to > work with other names. Japanese can use stroke count of the first character > instead of first character, for example. > Yes. Good idea. I am however astonished that nautilus takes ~30 sec. to open such a directory.
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