On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:42:21 -0800, rumours say that "EP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>I tried this for one application under the Windows OS and it worked fine... > >until my records (text - maybe 50KB average) unexpectedly blossomed into the >10,000-1,000,000 ranges. If I or someone else (who innocently doesn't know >better) opens up one of the directories with ~150,000 files in it, the >machine's personality gets a little ugly (it seems buggy but is just very >busy; no crashing). Under 10,000 files per directory seems to work just fine, >though. Although I am not a pro-Windows person, I have to say here directories containing more than 10000 files is not a problem for NTFS (at least NTFS of Win2000 and WinXP based on my experience) since AFAIK directories are stored in B-tree format; the problem is if one tries to *view* the directory contents using Explorer. Command-line dir had no problem on a directory with >15000 files. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Dear Paul, please stop spamming us." The Corinthians -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
