walking a directory with very many files

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:04:37 +1200
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:

> In message <20090617142431.2b25faf5 at malediction>, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:53:33 +1200
> > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> > 
> >> > Why not use hex representation of md5/sha1-hashed id as a path,
> >> > arranging them like /path/f/9/e/95ea4926a4 ?
> >> > 
> >> > That way, you won't have to deal with many-files-in-path problem ...
> >> 
> >> Why is that a problem?
> > 
> > So you can os.listdir them?
> 
> Why should you have a problem os.listdir'ing lots of files?

I shouldn't, and I don't ;)

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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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