Picture Server Storing Millions of jpg's!

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008, Shawn wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:04:20 -0800
...
>
>You didn't miss it, I miss typed it all over the place. 
>
>the gist is that the machine can't seem to handle the shear number of
>files in any one directory, numbering in the hundreds of thousands and
>beyond.  I am looking for a recommendation on file system and if there
>are any file managers more adept at this sort of situation.  Also are
>there any tweaks I might make to the system, OS software wise, that
>could help.

If it hurts when you do that, don't do it.

Perhaps you should have a cron job that runs periodically that
moves files out of the camera's upload directories into a more
sane structure.

Bill
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