What do you mean by 50 different filesystems?  50 directory / Type 19 files?

On 8/23/07, Ross Morrissey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At PhotoWorks circa 2003, we had approximately 500,000,000 jpegs of
> various
> sizes sitting in Unix directories on one IBM RS6000.
>
> We got around the OS limitations by storing image 12345678a.jpg as
> /12/34/12345678a.jpg, and the top level directories were on 50 different
> filesystems as I recall.
>
> All the image metadata was stored in UniVerse on a separate server.  The
> only software running on the image server was Apache and a couple of shell
> scripts (and the embedded Tivoli HSM software - yes all the images were
> backed up off site).
>
> I understand PhotoWorks has moved off their IBM archive in the last few
> years.
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