On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:03 -0600, AJ ONeal wrote: > Does anyone have a good guesstimate (and perhaps some reference material) as > to what the sweet spot is for access efficiency of folder depth vs number of > files per folder?
Depends on the filesystem. Older filesystems performed really poorly with large numbers of files. Modern filesystems play all kinds of tricks that make it less important to nest files. Benchmarking is your best bet. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
