Dealing with large number of files

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From: Phil Hughes
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:46

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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.

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?

E-mail would be best for me.  If anyone cares I am willing to sumarize.
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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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Subject: Dealing with large number of files
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:46:00 GMT
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