在一个目录中保存多少文件有关系吗?如果是，一个目录中有多少文件是太多的，拥有太多文件的影响是什么?(这是在Linux服务器上。)

Background: I have a photo album website, and every image uploaded is renamed to an 8-hex-digit id (say, a58f375c.jpg). This is to avoid filename conflicts (if lots of "IMG0001.JPG" files are uploaded, for example). The original filename and any useful metadata is stored in a database. Right now, I have somewhere around 1500 files in the images directory. This makes listing the files in the directory (through FTP or SSH client) take a few seconds. But I can't see that it has any effect other than that. In particular, there doesn't seem to be any impact on how quickly an image file is served to the user.

我想过通过创建16个子目录来减少图像的数量:0-9和a-f。然后我将根据文件名的第一个十六进制数字将图像移动到子目录中。但是除了偶尔通过FTP/SSH列出目录之外，我不确定这样做是否有任何理由。