You will rather reach the max path length than reaching the max adressable directories on NTFS.
Imagine the following: drive x: So path would be x:\a\b\c... Etc. So would be than 260 / 2 - 1 = 129 levels... Jozef On 12.2.2013, at 21:23, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > A directory is just another kind of file. > > What's the max number of directories in any given directory? By that, > I mean only the top-level directories, not counting the > subdirectories. > > It would be interesting to test this with a simple batch file to start > creating subdirs in a directory and see if/when it blows up. > > Kurt > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Chinnery, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> The path isn't too deep: E:\convert\0000000\0000\0000\0000 and from that >> point, other folders are created usually on the order of 000000xxxxxx. >> Probably on the order of 2+ million folders right now. At the end, though, >> it will be 4+ million easily. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:20 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: file limitation error >> >> Aside from path length, which others have already mentioned, if you have >> more than 10k files in a directory things will *really* start to slow down. >> Whether this will start to generate the errors you're seeing is unknown to >> me, but I wouldn't be surprised. >> >> Just FYI - the Win32 API only supports path lengths of approximately >> 254 characters (I say approximate because there are some interesting >> oddities) - this is different than the native Windows API, which allows for >> much longer path lengths, something on the order of 32768 characters, IIRC. >> For example, copy.exe and xcopy.exe both use the >> Win32 API, whereas robocopy.exe uses the Native API, and will copy (and >> delete) those longer names. >> >> Kurt >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
