problems with large directories?

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Tue Mar 9 13:17:59 UTC 2010



--On 9 March 2010 01:14:40 -0800 Christian Kujau <lists at nerdbynature.de> 
wrote:

>> > Finally, remember that ext2/3 has a limit of 32000 or so files per dir.
>> My IMAP spool suggests this is false w.r.t. ext3
>
> Did you use any special options when creating this ext3 filesystem? I've
> just tried but was only able to create 31998 directories in one directory.

As Ted pointed out off list, the limit is the number of subdirectories
in a directory, not the number of files in a directory.

-- 
Alex Bligh




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