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SubjectRe: Maximum files per Directory
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> 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?

Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your performance would have
been abominable too. cyrus should be using heirarchies of directories for
very large amounts of stuff.
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