On Mon 12/07/10 11:09, "Otto Moerbeek" [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:22:41AM +0200, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > Hello, may I know of limitations on supporting large > directories (over 5 > million files) with small files > > (less than 10 KB) under FFS/FFS2? > > This is for a research project under AMD x86 with > SATA Disk[s]. > Directories are linear structures. There's caching, but it will be > slow. Create subdirecties. As a rule of thumb, restrict yourself to a > few ten-thousends of files per dir.
Otto, I will re-structure my solution. As always, you've given the most clear and relevant response. Thanks a million :)
