Excerpts from Maxime Boissonneault's message of 2015-11-17 14:29:28 +0100: > On a cluster, having tens of thousands of files will be a killer, but > even on a personnal computer, it will make your data management a > nightmare. > I have seen users who think that having 2.5M files in a directory is "ok"...
i'd like to side with the users on this. it should be ok, and if filesystems were designed like databases then 2.5M files would be ok, just like having a database table with 2.5M records is ok. it is not the users fault that filesystems were not designed for their needs, and while the users should be taught how to cope with this, i consider their expectation that having 2.5M files in a directory is ok, in itself is actually reasonable. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
