Storing 64000+ files and growing in one folder (ext3)
It will work. You may not want to run any batch operations on the directory's contents. ls
and such will drag. I tend to use XFS filesystems for directories that have a large number of files that aren't stored in a tree...
For instance...
# mount
/dev/sdb1 on /app type xfs (rw,noatime,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,nobarrier)
[root@Rizzo /app/prt]# ls -1 | wc -l
191487
[root@Rizzo /app/prt]# time du -skh .
27G .
real 0m0.834s
user 0m0.236s
sys 0m0.566s
[root@Rizzo /app/prt]# time ls -lrta | tail -8
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PAB PAB 733 Dec 15 11:48 09228885.TGZ
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PJD PJD 8250 Dec 15 11:48 09228881.TGZ
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PJD PJD 9803 Dec 15 11:48 09228881.LAY.TGZ
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PJD PJD 127973 Dec 15 11:49 09228886.LAY
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PJD PJD 31720 Dec 15 11:49 09228886.PRT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PJD PJD 5368 Dec 15 11:49 09228886.POF
drwxrwxrwx 3 PEB SJS 5066752 Dec 15 11:49 .
-rw-rw-rw- 1 PJD PJD 31726 Dec 15 11:49 09228886.TMP
real 0m2.673s
user 0m1.055s
sys 0m1.622s