Re: OT: file system versus databases
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:39:01PM -0800, David Fox wrote:
> Are there a lot of files in each directory, or are there a lot of directories?
>
> One thing I can think off the top of my head when
> organizing/retrieving data this way (other than using an rDBMS) is
> that the directory read function doesn't scale very well, especially
> when doing something like ls over a large directory of mail.
This was correct for older file systems. ReiserFS, ext3 (w/dir_index)
and others have changed that.
If you actually need to read all of them to get some data then yes, it
miht be ineffective.
But as I have no idea about the system involved, I woun't claim it is
ineffective.
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