Re: storing a million of small files Oracle (or other db) vs. File System

From: Rich Teer <rich_at_rite-group.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:02:15 GMT
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0106231002020.19349-100000@mars.rite-group.com>

On 23 Jun 2001 cypher_at_punk.net wrote:

> How about keeping the files in one or more directories
> and manipulating symlinks instead?
>
> It might speed things up a bit.

Hmm, but wouldn't the directory that holds the symlinks then become a bottleneck? If a directory has a million entries in it, searching it is gonna be slow (linear) whether the entries are files or symlinks.

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Received on Sat Jun 23 2001 - 12:02:15 CDT