> It will depend on the length of the filenames. But by my calculations, > for average 28-char filenames, it's closer to 30 million. Note that there will be some very significant performance problems well before a directory gets that big. For example, just simply doing a readdir + stat on all of the files in that directory (or a readdir + unlink, etc.) will very likely result in extremely unacceptable performance. So if you can find some other way of avoiding allowing the file system that big (i.e., using a real database instead of trying to use a file system as a database, etc.), I'd strongly suggest that you consider those alternatives. Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
