lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1996]   [Jul]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Is any file system on Linux appropriate for very large directories?
On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Eric Benson wrote:
>
> Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. The near-unanimous
> recommendation: use subdirectories! I had considered this idea, and in
> fact I will probably do it.
>

You could also get a hardware raid (directory lookup's go faster when you
share the load on the fs over several disks), it'll also give a more
robust disk subsystem (ie a disk dies, and you don't louse all the data).
Bryn
--
PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence
again :( | initiated.
/ This space is intentionally left
| blank, apart from this text ;-)
\____________________________________



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:38    [W:0.091 / U:0.644 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site