On Mar 13, 2008 13:23 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > There is no limit to the number of files in a folder, except for the > fact that the directory itself can't be bigger than 2GB, and the > number of inodes that the entire filesystem has available to it. Of > course, if you don't have directory indexing turned on, you may not > like the performance of doing directory lookups, but that's a > different story. There is also a limit in the current ext3 htree code to be only 2 levels deep. Along with the 2GB limit you hit problems around 15M files, depending on the length of the filenames. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
