How do you deal with lots of small files?
问题 A product that I am working on collects several thousand readings a day and stores them as 64k binary files on a NTFS partition (Windows XP). After a year in production there is over 300000 files in a single directory and the number keeps growing. This has made accessing the parent/ancestor directories from windows explorer very time consuming. I have tried turning off the indexing service but that made no difference. I have also contemplated moving the file content into a database/zip files