On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:55 AM, davidl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I read somewhere that having more than a thousand images in a single
> directory is a bad idea, because all the common filing system has a
> linear search( need to look up every single file until it finds the
> match) and slows down the system.
That was ages ago. Modern filesystems don't have this problem, they
use data structures better than a list. For example ext3 has the
following feature:
dir_index
Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large
directories.
Cheers,
Cristian
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