Re: [PLUG] Is there a limit to the amount of files in a directory before it starts causing trouble?

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:17:30PM -0800, Marc Zucchelli wrote:
> When someone uploads a picture, the pictures ALL get
> saved in the same directory.  It just occured to me,
> what if theres 10's of millions of images sitting in
> one directory, or even 10's of thousands.

Will's comments sound reasonable.  If you choose to deal with it at a
code level rather than at a file system level, however, a simple
solution is to store the images as blobs in your database (or in a
separate image database).  Databases are designed to do these sorts of
things, although file systems have certainly gained more database-like
features bit in the last decade.

-- 
 Jeff

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