Hi monks , I want to start working on online community project that based on flat files database.
I have already good experience with flat files , but this time i want to make it work as fast as it can be.
I searched the internet for book or a good tutorial with no luck.
1.For example, what should work faster for access user dir with id 748332:
/74/83/32/748332/
or
/7/4/8/3/3/2/748332
2.Files in linux directory are indexed when someone try to access them ?
3.For example someone posted a message, what better :
to save all the replies for this message in a singe file or
save each reply in separate file in the folder that will be created for this message and when someone view the message to gather all the replies from the files

If there a tutorial or book about flat files database it will be great !
Thanks a lot !

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