From: David Masover Date: 2008-06-04T05:00:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Simple Object Relational Database? Ruby db40 On Tuesday 03 June 2008 13:59:20 Casimir wrote: > Serialized objects are all stored in the same directory. After a few more > thousand files I suppose directory size limits performance. A good filesystem makes this a moot point, unless you are deliberately looping through all of them. Even ext3 can be tuned for very large directories. Use the filesystem structure that makes life easiest for you, and then figure out what filesystem performs best under it.