Re: Huge fileson the same folder

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Hello:

Thanks a lot for your reply, does any turning on system it can increase the performance on such case? I am using NTFS, is it possible to disable 8.3 format or anything can speed-up the retrieval?

Thanks a lot!

Tim Slattery wrote:
Begineer <new@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello:

Does any recommendation for how many files on the same folder? If the folder have huge of files at the same level, does any configuration can improve the performance?

The number of files or subdirectories in an NTFS directory is
practically unlimited. There's a limit of 4 billion or so files per
partition, they could all be in the same directory if you wanted. NTFS
directories are stored in BTree format. That makes them quite quick to
search for a single file, even when there are very many entries. The
tradeoff is that it takes longer to retrieve the entire list of
entries, like when you open the directory in Windows Explorer, or a
File Open or File Save box in an application.

Regardless of the file system, things usually work better - and files
are easier to find - if you limit the number of files per directory.
When a directory gets huge, split it into subdirectories.

.

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