Just to further caution: 34000 files is OK in a directory - barely. If you have 3x that (102,000 files) in a directory, your file system performance may decrease rapidly, depending on the filesystem being used. I've seen and duplicated some studies that indicate that ext2/3 and reiserfs start having serious performance problems after getting 10000-30000 files in a directory. If you need more files than that, and want to use those filesystems, break the files up into subdirectories to avoid the performance problem.
JFS performs very well up to at least 600,000 files in a directory. I think XFS is supposed to work well also with large file-in-directory volumes, but I've not tried it. If you're ever using Windows(tm), you want to use NTFS. As mentioned in the previous post, you *never* want to use 'ls' on a directory with a huge number of files in it. I did that once and waited over 20 minutes for it to start returning results. Nor do you want to view the contents of such a directory with a GUI - there is evil there that does not sleep. Dave On Wednesday 14 November 2007 15:31, E Chalaron wrote: > Hence the patch included in my previous email > E > > Johannes Sixt wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 20:57, E Chalaron wrote: > >> IL'dar and Graham > >> > >> I could not download IL'dar's script but in my case having thousands of > >> frames > >> makes the ls command in Graham script to fail.... > > > > Of course, ls * is a big no-no if you have 34000 files. ls . does the > > same. > > > > -- Hannes > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cinelerra mailing list > > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
