On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:50:26 -0500
Bruce Therrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory?
No. Though the file system type can have an affect on performance if
there are a lot of files/directories. For example, reiserfs is much
faster at handling a lot of files than ext[23]. What file system are
you using?
> we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory
> and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp
> software says it's not a directory.
> It's on an IBM server running gentoo.
I would think it is the ftp software and not the file system or
server. 19,000 is not a huge number. I have an AMD64 3200+ with 2 GB
of dual channel DDR 400 and a SATA II drive with reiserfs v3. The
system is "speedy" but certainly nothing high end. Here is a test I
just did:
# Touch 19,000 files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mkdir /tmp/bigdir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cd /tmp/bigdir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ time for i in $(seq 0 19000); do touch $i; done
real 0m23.318s
user 0m6.370s
sys 0m16.364s
# list 19,000 files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ time ls -l
real 0m1.481s
user 0m0.235s
sys 0m0.163s
# Remove 19,000 files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ time find . -exec rm {} \;
real 0m12.555s
user 0m3.834s
sys 0m8.545s
Jim
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