Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Maximum files per Directory | Date | 1 May 2001 15:03:44 -0700 |
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Followup to: <E14uhI2-0002NH-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > 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. >
But also showing, once again, that this particular scalability problem really is a headache for some people.
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