[Web4lib] Web site performance affected by large number of files in a directory?

[Robert Sullivan]

I'm doing some testing for another historical records project (Civil
War muster rolls).  It's working well so far, but my current structure
for it has one file per company in a single directory.  This would
eventually result in about 3000 pages (around 28K each).

Is this likely to cause any performance issues?  The site is hosted on
a Linux/Apache system.  I could rewrite my database programs to break
up the files into folders by regiment if that would speed things up.

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library