On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:00:12 -0700, z0diac <web2009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Someone recently told me to 'keep an eye on it' because certain setups can't > hold more than X number of files in a single directory. Yet someone else > said I could have over 1 trillion files in a single directory if the HDD was > large enough... When I have directories in the few million range doing mass changes gets extremely slow. Besides some the other other things mentioned, you need to worry about the inode limit on the file system. The default now, is lower than it used to be. This bit me once when I was moving a directory with lots of files to another system with a similar size partition when i was expecting a similar inode limit. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
