Hi :)
El Thursday 03 January 2008, Greg Freemyer escribió:
> All,
>
> I have a Windows based app we run at our office.
>
> It sometimes creates directories with literally millions of small
> files in one directory. Using a local drive with NTFS it is taking
> hours to do simple things in that directory.
>
> I'm thinking of sitting up a dedicated Samba Server to serve just the
> data drive out to this windows server.
>
> If I did that, what would be the best choice of filesystem? ReiserFS?
> I know it has been optimized for lots of small files, but I'm not
> sure about the couple million in one directory scenario.
We've got customers with over millions (yes, millions) of files in each
directory (XFS in these cases). It works like a charm.
But ... I do not recommend directories with over 10 thousand files for
Windows. We've seen Windows very limited when it has to list a directory with
over 10 thousand files, no matter what filesystem you are using on the Samba
server.
You can try locally and see the same thing happens:
1.- create a directory on your Windows machine
2.- populate it with +10000 files
3.- try to browse it
4.- Good luck ;)
Rafa
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