[snip] I can easily break it up into 100 subdirectories, 2500 files in each, would that be good insurance against problems? [/snip] As someone mentioned, directories are just a human convenience. Each file will have an inode and is identified by an inode number in the file system where it resides. Inodes store information on files such as user and group ownership, access mode (read, write, execute permissions) and type of file. There is a fixed number of inodes, which indicates the maximum number of files each filesystem can hold. Hence, beware the inode. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php