Best organizing hundreds of thousands files for rsync and find

Cristian Bichis cristi at imagis.ro
Wed Mar 27 23:30:57 MDT 2013


Hi,

I need to organize about 100 millions small files (and the number grows 
up) on a server which should be copied to other server.

I am wondering how many files are recommended to be kept into a folder 
for optimal performance? As well, if I have a folder with only 
subfolders (not files) what number of subfolders are recommended to have?

As well, the question could be for "find" command, not just for for 
rsyncas I am doing some cleanups using find (or for - find).


I made a mistake before and I increased a lot the number of 
subfoldersfolders (having just few files within them) and rsync 
performance was decreasing considerably. Was a mistake which I will try 
to correct.

So now as the number of files is increasing constantly I need to find 
out a solution on long term to correct the current issues.

Cristian
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