On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:59:59PM +0800, liuyue wrote: > Thank you all. > > Now I find a patch which can extend ext3 subdirectory limit. > http://osdir.com/ml/file-systems.ext2.devel/2004-12/msg00026.html That's *subdirectories*, not files. The maximum number of files per directory are basically limited as discussed in this thread. The number of subdirectories was limited by the 16-bit i_nlink field. Andreas' idea for extending this limit, as described above, is in ext4. Regards, - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users