On 2003-01-02 09:01, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org
> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling
> block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory.
> Each file is about 2k in size.
On 2003-01-02 12:13, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/2/03 at 8:58 AM Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote:
> > It can be argued that the application is poorly designed...
>
> There's no arguing. It *is* poorly designed. I would have used a
> hash to spread the files across multiple directories.
> Unfortunately, I didn't design it.
You are probably hitting the limit of fragments that are allowed on a
filesystem and "time optimization" becomes "space optimization". Are
you getting entries in your system logs like the following?
optimization changed from TIME to SPACE
- Giorgos
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