On 24 Feb 2009, at 15:03, Sho Fukamachi wrote:
On 21/02/2009, at 10:40 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Many. For certain applications it makes sense to have a db per user.
Careful with that approach if there is any chance of having a lot of
users, or you don't control the machine. All the database files go
into one directory.
Personally I consider the "too many files in one directory" hype to
be a little overdone but still wouldn't want more than a few
thousand, and if you're not root, I've seen low limits set by quota
systems as well which could be an issue in managed environments.
Just something to bear in mind ...
Quoting http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_database_API
All database files are stored in a single directory on the file
system. If your database includes a / CouchDB will create a sub-
directory structure in the database directory. That is, a database
named his/her, the database file will be available at $dbdir/his/
her.couch. This is useful when you a large number of databases and
your file system does not like that.
Cheers
Jan
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