This is a response/extension to the Deep directory structure vs. flat directory structure to store millions of files on ext4 article on Medium. Here, I'm benchmarking not only a nesting level of two, but different levels.
This benchmark currently runs on an otherwise idle physical server with this specs:
- HDD: spinning, encrypted (RAID 10)
- CPU: Intel i7-2600 (4 cores + HT @ 3.4GHz)
- RAM: 16GB