On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Mag Gam <magaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul:
> For instance, grep "something" country/2005/??/01/foo.txt > > It gives an instant result. Thats how we are using it and we love it. Are there a lot of files in each directory, or are there a lot of directories? One thing I can think off the top of my head when organizing/retrieving data this way (other than using an rDBMS) is that the directory read function doesn't scale very well, especially when doing something like ls over a large directory of mail. Have you looked at indexers for your data, to see how well that helps, such as swish++? > TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
