How do you deal with lots of small files?

Question

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 the

Answer 1

You could try using something like Solid File System.

This gives you a virtual file system that applications can mount as if it were a physical disk. Your application sees lots of small files, but just one file sits on your hard drive.

http://www.eldos.com/solfsdrv/