On Saturday 16 June 2007 02:51, Daniel Brown wrote: > And remember, the fact that they're all > in one directory doesn't matter at all to the system, as directories, > folders, et cetera, are just representations for human readability and > organization. In fact, those files reside on several sectors > throughout the drive, and each file itself is probably fragmented many > times.
Actually it does matter depending on the filesystem you use. If you're using ext2/ext3 then having several thousand files in a directory seriously slows things down. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
