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 -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org