David Pratt wrote:
Hi. I am creating a python application that uses PIL to generate
thumbnails and sized images. It is beginning to look the volume of
images will be large. This has got me to thinking. Is there a number
that Unix can handle in a single directory. I am using FreeBSD4.x at the
moment. I am thinking the number could be as high 500,000 images in a
single directory but more likely in the range of 6,000 to 30,000 for
most. I did not want to store these in Postgres. Should this pose a
problem on the filesystem? I realize less a python issue really but I
though some one might have an idea on the list.
Regards,
David.
FreeDB (CD database) stores one file per CD in one directory per
category. The "misc" category/directory on my FreeBSD 5.3 system
currently contains around 481,571 small files. The "rock"
directory/category contains 449,208 files.
As some have said, ls is *very* slow on these directories, but otherwise
there don't seem to be any problems.
Rowdy
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