I have a chunk of space on an XFS partition I'm using.
I'm throwing PDF page files into a single directory.
I'm about to hash them into buckets, create matching dirs, and link them around if it seems like a good idea.
I have 400,000 PDF files, and when I'm done I'd have 2.2 million.
I don't mind having LOTS of files if it won't make the dir too creaky.
I get them via a large unique id in the file name, but I have to glob to get all the pages for a single item.
Stupid?
I may have another partition to play with tomorrow, and at that point I can choose my file system. Resier used to rule on the many/small file issue. Or should I just use ext3 with dir indexing turned on?