On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:39:01PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > 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.
This was correct for older file systems. ReiserFS, ext3 (w/dir_index) and others have changed that. If you actually need to read all of them to get some data then yes, it miht be ineffective. But as I have no idea about the system involved, I woun't claim it is ineffective. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
