On Thursday 22 August 2002 00:35, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > ... but surely one should store files across directories, as 10000 images > in a single directory might slow down access to those images in the > filesystem, or not so? > [/snip] > > Not really. The server really does not care where the files are and no > performance would be lost.
Having a large number of files in a single directory does affect performance, the degree of which depends on the filesystem. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* QOTD: "I never met a man I couldn't drink handsome." */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php