On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:22:41AM +0200, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Hello, may I know of limitations on supporting large directories (over 5 > million files) with small files > (less than 10 KB) under FFS/FFS2? > This is for a research project under AMD x86 with SATA Disk[s].
Directories are linear structures. There's caching, but it will be slow. Create subdirecties. As a rule of thumb, restrict yourself to a few ten-thousends of files per dir. -Otto