Disk fragmentation when dealing with many small files
- by Zorlack
On a daily basis we generate about 3.4 Million small jpeg files. We also delete about 3.4 Million 90 day old images. To date, we've dealt with this content by storing the images in a hierarchical manner. The heriarchy is something like this:
/Year/Month/Day/Source/
This heirarchy allows us to effectively delete days worth of content across all…