I am working on a design of a file archiving system that could involve several hundred thousand files, on a W2K Server hard disk formated with NTFS.
Are there any recommendations regarding the maximum number of files/folders within a directory? I envision distributing these files across multiple folders (20-30 for example –> meaning ~10,000 files per folder). Is this reasonable, or extreme?
Any recommendations for documentation that may describe the impact of folders approaching this number of files?
Thanks,
Denny
