At 08:59 08.11.01 -0800, you wrote: >My specifics are that I have a need to permanently store tens of thousands >of smallish (5K) items. I'm currently using a simple file system store, >one file per record, all in the same directory. Clearly, I need to move >into a directory tree for better performance as the number of files increases.
A modern FS like XFS or ReiserFS will do that without a directory tree. Joachim -- "... ein Geschlecht erfinderischer Zwerge, die fuer alles gemietet werden koennen." - Bertolt Brecht - Leben des Galilei
