Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger wrote: Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] I'm writing a web-interface to file-sharing. It's back-ended by a metadata database and a filesystem based file store. Sounds like a pretty classic application for WebDAV. The question I need to answer is: how many files can a directory contain

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Bill Moran said: Question for the gurus or anyone who has done any test on filesystem performance. Where is the point at which a directory has too many files in it? Mainly with regard to performance degredation? It Depends

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] I'm writing a web-interface to file-sharing. It's back-ended by a metadata database and a filesystem based file store. Sounds like a pretty classic application for WebDAV. The question I need to answer is: how many files can a directory contain before the system

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 11), Bill Moran said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Bill Moran said: Question for the gurus or anyone who has done any test on filesystem performance. It Depends Thanks for the input ... that was definately an interesting article. I would

Re: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory

2003-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 10), Bill Moran said: Question for the gurus or anyone who has done any test on filesystem performance. Where is the point at which a directory has too many files in it? Mainly with regard to performance degredation? It Depends