To add to your answer, i have a similar system running on some of my servers, indexing some pretty nastily-disorganized windows fileshares. I put everything into a PostgreSQL database. That lets me do all kinds of metadata analysis with a few simple SQL statements.

Everything "below a few tens of millions of entries" shouldn't be a problem for a decent low- to midrange server build within the last 8 years. My current, 8 year old, development server is used for this kind of crap all the time without any issues.

I'm pretty sure that running fstat() on all those files is going to be a major slowdown, and the checksuming certainly needs to be done locally, not over the network.

"For me, programming in Perl is like my cooking. The result may not always taste nice, but it's quick, painless and it get's food on the table."

In reply to Re^2: Alternatives to DB for comparable lists by cavac
in thread Alternatives to DB for comparable lists by peterrowse

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