On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Jean Laeremans <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Dave Crozier <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >  or slow to access say because you have more than
> > about 5,000 files in a folder then it totally screws you.
> >
>
> I guess you're talking about a win server here ?
> Right now i have around 50.000 files on a linux server. Access is
> immediate..after all a dir. is just a filename..
>
>
In a single folder?  It wouldn't surprise me that linux handles folders
better than Windows, I've just not had the experience of that many files in
a folder in linux to compare.  Windows definitely does better under 5K per
folder.

Fred


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