a very simple problem, but unknown solution

[Francis Turner]

Benson, Paul wrote:

> In our environemt, we use PCs (NT) running a JVM that produces unique file
> names, and data content about 100K or less. We only write to these file. The
> JVM (the application) does spawn many threads so the net effect can be many
> simultaneous file creation requests from one PC.
> 
> All the files are written to a samba mounted directory, and the directory
> *file* itself does get somewhat large. The directory name is MM-DD-YY so it

> changes every 24 hours.


As a work around could you create subdirectories based on some portion 
of the name? e.g. the first 2 letters? That way you end up with a lot 
fewer files/directory

I did this once a long time ago to solve a similar problem. Of course 
you do have to have access to the applications source code to do this

Francis
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