[NTLUG:Discuss] Maximum files per directory

[Richard Wolfe]

Thanks Steve, that answers my question. I figured it was one of
those cases where the actual physical limit was quite high, but
it was a bad idea for other reasons (i.e., performance).

> A lot of things start to slow down quite a bit when you have a
> lot
> of files in one directory.  We had a system that put 6,400
> files
> in one directory and the time taken to open a file went WAY
> up.
> 
> I'd strongly advise you to find a way to split it up into at
> least
> a couple of levels of heirarchy.
> 
> ---------------------------- Steve Baker