On 6/15/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 02:51, Daniel Brown wrote: > And remember, the fact that they're all > in one directory doesn't matter at all to the system, as directories, > folders, et cetera, are just representations for human readability and > organization. In fact, those files reside on several sectors > throughout the drive, and each file itself is probably fragmented many > times. Actually it does matter depending on the filesystem you use. If you're using ext2/ext3 then having several thousand files in a directory seriously slows things down. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Once again, this doesn't matter so much for per-directory (though listing will take longer, as I think I mentioned) as it does the filesystem mount. The ext2/ext3 filesystems were made for these reasons, especially with journaling like ReiserFS, XFS, et cetera (which is a completely different bag of nuts). -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
