one directory with 500 000 files (5-8mb each)

[Aleksandar Lazic]

On Son 22.06.2008 01:08, Dan M wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Michael <nginx at thismetalsky.org>
>wrote:
>
>> No matter which filesystem you use, with that many directory entries,
>> it's going to be slow.  I'd split them up.  I've done the method
>> using the first
>
>How do you know it would be slow with _any_ filesystem? Did you test
>all filesystems with this special case to know for sure?
>
>I am guessing ReiserFS could do quite well - it was designed to handle
>huge numbers of files. What about others? XFS? Would be interesting to
>know why so many files need to be in one directory as well...

maybe this post can help.

http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=fs_contest2

Aleks