Hi All--
Rowdy wrote:
FreeDB (CD database) stores one file per CD in one directory per
category. The misc category/directory on my FreeBSD 5.3 system
currently contains around 481,571 small files. The rock
directory/category contains 449,208 files.
As some have said, ls is *very* slow
Yes I'm talking Linux not BSD so with any luck you won't have the same
'ls' issue; it is not a crash but painfully slow. The only other issue
I recall is wildcards fail if they encompass too many files (presumably
a bash/max command line size).
I would expect the various GUI file managers may
Hi. I am creating a python application that uses PIL to generate
thumbnails and sized images. It is beginning to look the volume of
images will be large. This has got me to thinking. Is there a number
that Unix can handle in a single directory. I am using FreeBSD4.x at
the moment. I am
I ran into a similar situation with a massive directory of PIL
generated images (around 10k). No problems on the filesystem/Python
side of things but other tools (most noteably 'ls') don't cope very
well.As it happens my data has natural groups so I broke the big
dir into subdirs to sidestep
Hi Jason. Many thanks your reply. This is good to know about ls -
what did it do? Was it just slow or did the server or machine die? My
images will be going into the path of a web server. This is
unchartered territory for me and I don't know whether there will be
speed and access problems
Kane wrote:
I ran into a similar situation with a massive directory of PIL
generated images (around 10k). No problems on the filesystem/Python
side of things but other tools (most noteably 'ls') don't cope very
well.
My experience suggests that 'ls' has a lousy sort routine or
that it takes
David Pratt wrote:
Hi. I am creating a python application that uses PIL to generate
thumbnails and sized images. It is beginning to look the volume of
images will be large. This has got me to thinking. Is there a number
that Unix can handle in a single directory. I am using FreeBSD4.x at the
David Pratt wrote:
Hi. I am creating a python application that uses PIL to generate
thumbnails and sized images. It is beginning to look the volume of
images will be large. This has got me to thinking. Is there a number
that Unix can handle in a single directory. I am using FreeBSD4.x at the
