Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ]
I'm writing a web-interface to file-sharing. It's back-ended by a metadata
database and a filesystem based file store.
Sounds like a pretty classic application for WebDAV.
The question I need to answer is: how many files can a directory contain before the system determines that no more files should be
placed in it?
When you have more than a few thousand files per directory, that's the point where many platforms seem to slow down very significantly.
What's the size range and average size of an item?
Unfortunately, I can't know that at this time. I don't have any examples.
If you do something a little clever-- perhaps concat'ing small (< 8 K) items together (keeping track of this with your metadata DB), and only using seperate files for larger items-- you might be able to finesse the situation.
Might help. I'll consider it.
I guess I'm just going to have to do my own research.
-- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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