Re: Hypotetical mail situation

[Eko Priono]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:45:18 +0200, Or Botton wrote:

> Whats the logic in limiting these files? (besides the obvious
> clutter?)

Probably because the root should directly accessible from BIOS
level, even before the DOS part that handling file system (used
for subdirectories) get loaded.  Just historical reason I guess.

There's indeed no limit for files in subdirectories, but too
many files slowing things down a lot.  This is also true under
Linux -- AFAIK that's why proxy servers commonly using plenty
of multiple cascaded directories to store its cache.

--Eko
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