On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 05:49:22PM +0100, suntrop@xxxxxx wrote: > Thanks guys. I was afraid of having a couple 100K (at most). The > server support team told me not to have more than 10 to 20K. There > seems to be a misconception (for me and people from the CMS) about > the 32K subdirectory limit, but this ins't for files/folders within > a single directory but rather nested directories like > /1/2/3.../32000 In general the limitation you will hit first is one of performance, rather than a hard limit. Using nested directories, i.e., /home/t/y/t/tytso will generally be a performance win if you can do it. Cheers, - 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
