Re: Combining Ultra-Dynamic Files to Avoid Clustering (Ideas?)

in reply to Combining Ultra-Dynamic Files to Avoid Clustering (Ideas?)

You haven't said how the files are named. I'd first try distributing them among subdirectories - about three deep. The bookkeeping for a single file with lots of references to offsets within seems excessive. One million files in a single directory does, too.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: Combining Ultra-Dynamic Files to Avoid Clustering (Ideas?) by rjahrman (Scribe) on Jul 24, 2004 at 05:43 UTC
That's exactly what I was going to do . . . but enough of the files are <1KB to make clustering a concern.	[reply]

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