Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3073 mails)

[Rafa Grimán <rafagriman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)


El Thursday 03 January 2008, Greg Freemyer escribió:
> All,
>
> I have a Windows based app we run at our office.
>
> It sometimes creates directories with literally millions of small
> files in one directory.  Using a local drive with NTFS it is taking
> hours to do simple things in that directory.
>
> I'm thinking of sitting up a dedicated Samba Server to serve just the
> data drive out to this windows server.
>
> 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.


We've got customers with over millions (yes, millions) of files in each 
directory (XFS in these cases). It works like a charm.

But ... I do not recommend directories with over 10 thousand files for 
Windows. We've seen Windows very limited when it has to list a directory with 
over 10 thousand files, no matter what filesystem you are using on the Samba 
server.

You can try locally and see the same thing happens:
        1.- create a directory on your Windows machine
        2.- populate it with +10000 files
        3.- try to browse it
        4.- Good luck ;)

   Rafa

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