September 10, 20169 yr I'm currently in the process of moving all my files around to get enough free space on enough drives to start my new Unraid array. My current NAS platform is flexraid/windows 10 based, and FR hasn't been meeting my needs for a long time. In general FR has been a headache for months with zero development on the F-Raid product; thus the switch to Unraid. Under windows, I was forced to keep my directories very structured to keep directory browsing performance at acceptable levels. For instance, I discovered that at around 200 or so directories and up, it became painfully slow with long delays when entering a folder to manually browse files, even if I was just in the folder a minute ago. I'm not sure the cause, but I know that when I moved media around so that there were always less than 175 subdirectories, the file browsing performance worked well enough. Once I created an hierarchy that enforced this, I didn't think about it too much. I have plenty of familiarity with Linux, but not Unraid or XFS specifically. I'd like to flatten my media folders a bit so I don't have to manually move media after it's been categorized. This would easily create around 1000 subdirectories in a top level folder with each directory under it having 1 or 2 folders as well, and I wanted to know if this would hamper performance in any way before I commit to doing it. Once done, it's a huge PITA to move everything back into sub-folders.
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