On 04/26/2010 07:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > >> In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of >> 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. >> >> There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. This is caused by >> the ext3 hard link count limit being 32000. Two links are needed for the >> parent directory entry and the current directory's ".", leaving only >> 31998 links available for ".." links from subdirectories. >> >> This limit is rarely encountered in practice because it is so much more >> efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: >> >> parent- >> a- >> able >> alf >> b- >> beta >> bravo > > Hmm... what happens if you have a program that behaves that way, but > suddenly needs to start also using Chinese characters? :-) >
Um, well, use the first Chinese character as a sub-directory name. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bd59030.2050...@cox.net