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- From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
- Subject: Dealing with large number of files
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:46:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.044600.16058@ssc.com>
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- In another life I am working on a program that will have to deal with a
- large number of files on an MS-DOS system. By large I mean 1000-10000.
- My program will be creating them as well as accessing them so I am free to
- put them where I want.
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- My question is what is a reasonable number of files to put in a directory?
- Further, is file access time a function of the size of directory or of the
- number of files on a partition?
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- E-mail would be best for me. If anyone cares I am willing to sumarize.
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