Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Maximum files per Directory | Date | 1 May 2001 13:58:06 -0700 |
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Followup to: <272800000.988750082@hades> By author: Andreas Rogge <lu01@rogge.yi.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes > with > cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be > more files in a directory. > > Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue? >
Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation.
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