On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Nicole Harrington. wrote:
>
> Hello
> I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like
> around 2 million...
>
> Assuming FreeBSD 4.0-Stable with Soft Updates, what is a sane number that can
> be handled per directory?
Softupdates doesn't really help with large directories. The
limiting factor is that directories are unsorted so opening a file is a
linear search on the directory.
Break your files into subdirectories and then maybe another level
or two of subdirectoies. Try to keep the directories balanced. Ideally,
the path is a perfect hash on the filenames.
Still, you might want to think about a DB or somethign other thana
large directory for storing 2 million files.
Adrian
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