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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:47:30 -0800
From: "Craig A. James" <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>
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Subject: Re: 15,000 tables
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So say I need 10,000 tables, but I can create tablespaces.  Wouldn't that solve the performance problem caused by Linux's (or ext2/3's) problems with large directories?

For example, if each user creates (say) 10 tables, and I have 1000 users, I could create 100 tablespaces, and assign groups of 10 users to each tablespace.  This would limit each tablespace to 100 tables, and keep the ext2/3 file-system directories manageable.

Would this work?  Would there be other problems?

Thanks,
Craig