On 10 Jan 2009, at 19:41, Antony Blakey wrote:
In addition, if you name your databases "foo/bar" CouchDB will actually
create that as a structure on disk to avoid running into trouble with
filesystems that don't like a lot of files in a single directory.

Setups with 1 million databases representing users have been tested
successfully.

Hmmm. The filesystem layout changes that I've proofed, and had accepted for incorporation, changes this. Filenames are munged to allow arbitrary characters, and so '/' is escaped.

Would it be possible to keep the current behaviour or deal with the
issue of lots of files in a single directory in another way?

Cheers
Jan
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