Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:08:33 -0600 | From | Tim Walberg <> | Subject | Re: File limit in ext2? [Possibly OT] |
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On 03/29/2000 17:32 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:55:21AM -0600, Daniel Stone wrote: >> > I'm just wanting to know if there's a limit to how many files you can have >> > in any given directory in an ext2 partition. >> >> As many as you want: it just gets slower with large directories. >> Reiserfs is more scalable with big directories. >>
Of course, you might still be subject to running out of i-nodes, depending on how the fs was created, but outside of that, directories grow dynamically as files are added. (I suspect there's a limit on how large the directory structure can get, too, but it's pretty large.)
tw
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