windows xp - How do you deal with lots of small files? - Stack Overflow

windows xp - How do you deal with lots of small files? - Stack Overflow

NTFS performance severely degrades after 10,000 files in a directory. What you do is create an additional level in the directory hierarchy, with each subdirectory having 10,000 files.

For what it's worth, this is the approach that the SVN folks took in version 1.5. They used 1,000 files as the default threshold.

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