Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-27 Thread David Scheidt
On 26 Jun 2000, Chris Shenton wrote: :I was considering this for a project I developed: web up/download of :lots of large files. I was using MySQL and some of the folks on that :list recommended not storing large files in the DB: even though the :disk consumption is the same, if it's in a DB you

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Shenton
On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) Hey I agree... However even if the html was databased.. (working on that now) the custom graphics cannot be. (yet) On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:12:48 +0930 (CST), "Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-25 Thread Doug Barton
"Nicole Harrington." wrote: On 22-Jun-00 Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hello I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like around 2 million... that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like around 2 million... that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more reasonable # of files per directory. Well.. Yea that's

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-23 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: % I chunk of binary data you can put in a DB. % % Like an image, or an mpeg, or a sound file.. % % AFAIK postgres supports BLOBS. So does MySQL. You can display a BLOB using a Perl/DBI cgi script with about 5 lines of code. Just print the correct

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-23 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
"Nicole Harrington." wrote: On 23-Jun-00 Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) Hey I agree... However even if the html was databased.. (working on that now) the custom graphics cannot be. (yet) Hmm..

How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Nicole Harrington.
Hello I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like around 2 million... Assuming FreeBSD 4.0-Stable with Soft Updates, what is a sane number that can be handled per directory? Thanks!! Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ __ /|

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hello I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like around 2 million... that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more reasonable # of files per directory. Or use a single file

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Kris Kirby
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Don Lewis wrote: other ways of quickly finding the desired directory entry. Even so, you probably still would want to avoid doing an "ls" or an "echo *" ;-) Heh. I once wrote a program that made 1K files until it ran out of disk space. It took the 386DX-40 about two days

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Arun Sharma
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:42:37 -0700 (PDT), Nicole Harrington. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like around 2 million... Assuming FreeBSD 4.0-Stable with Soft Updates, what is a sane number that can be handled per

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22-Jun-00 Luigi Rizzo wrote: that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more reasonable # of files per directory. Or use a single file and a cgi which

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Nicole Harrington.
On 22-Jun-00 Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hello I have a user who needs to store a large amount of small html files. Like around 2 million... that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more reasonable # of files

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Nicole Harrington.
On 22-Jun-00 Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22-Jun-00 Luigi Rizzo wrote: that sounds insane! Because a name is a name, why dont they call those files xx/yy/zz/tt.html and the like, to get down to a more reasonable # of files per directory. Or use a single file and a cgi which extracts

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) Hey I agree... However even if the html was databased.. (working on that now) the custom graphics cannot be. (yet) Hmm.. can't you do binary blobs in a DB and change the image URL's to be cgi

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Nicole Harrington.
On 23-Jun-00 Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :) Hey I agree... However even if the html was databased.. (working on that now) the custom graphics cannot be. (yet) Hmm.. can't you do binary blobs in a DB and

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote: I dunno.. whats a "binary Blob"? I chunk of binary data you can put in a DB. Like an image, or an mpeg, or a sound file.. AFAIK postgres supports BLOBS. Also would'nt this make the DB HUGE Yep :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer