On Saturday 16 June 2007 02:51, Daniel Brown wrote:

> And remember, the fact that they're all
> in one directory doesn't matter at all to the system, as directories,
> folders, et cetera, are just representations for human readability and
> organization. In fact, those files reside on several sectors
> throughout the drive, and each file itself is probably fragmented many
> times.

Actually it does matter depending on the filesystem you use. If you're
using ext2/ext3 then having several thousand files in a directory
seriously slows things down.

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Crayon