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.
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