[nylug-talk] The best way to mirror 6M+ files?

[David Rosenstrauch]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Yusuke Shinyama wrote:
> 
>> Actually one of the top-level directories has already 3M+ files and the
>> structure of the subdirectories might change. Maybe I need to ask the
>> users to organize them in a more consistent way.
> In this case, you have already failed. It is a very bad idea to have >10k 
> files in same directory

Well, that's not necessarily true.  It really depends on the file system 
being used.  Some file systems (reiserfs comes to mind) can handle large 
numbers of files - i.e., much larger than 10K - without any problem.

DR