About the number of files in a directory with FSFS filesystem

[Masaru Tsuchiyama <ts...@asahi-net.email.ne.jp>]

Hi!

It seems that FSFS stores revision data in repos/db/revprops
directory, by one-revision-one-file manner.

In the manner, if we have a large-revision-repository, there will be
many files in the directory.

Many filesystems have the limitation on the numbers of files in 
a directory. 
(for example, in FAT32, 65534 or 65535 files. But I think the number
of files which can be used pratically are less than that)

How do you think this problem ?

Masaru Tsuchiyama




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Re: About the number of files in a directory with FSFS filesystem

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 20:09, Masaru Tsuchiyama wrote:
> Many filesystems have the limitation on the numbers of files in 
> a directory. 

See http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/info/fsfs and search for "Big directories
full of revision files".

My experience is that most filesystems do their job adequately when
faced with a directory containing many files, but you're correct that
some do not.


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