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[M Harris <harrismh777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 03 January 2008 13:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > If I did that, what would be the best choice of filesystem?  ReiserFS?
> > I know it has been optimized for lots of small files, but I'm not
> > sure about the couple million in one directory scenario.
>
> Reiserfs will be very happy with millions of files in a single directory.
        Yes, Reiserfs is the best choice. Its organized on a b-tree (very fast) 
and 
the leaves take up only as much diskspace as the file needs (unlike file 
systems that allocate predetermined block sizes regardless of file size). 


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M Harris     <><
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