On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 22:46:18 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend > > you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a > > directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that > > directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower as > > time goes on. > > With the implementation of UFS_DIRHASH the practical limit on the > size of directories is now a great deal larger. In particular > the slow down caused by linear search through the contents has been > eliminated. See ffs(7). 10,000 files or sub-directories, whist > not a particularly elegant setup, is actually not unworkable > nowadays.
Well that's certainly been my experience so far. Still, I now know we will run into problems when we hit the 32,768 limit, so I'll start designing something better. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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