On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 10:03:53PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: } That is, in my experience, about } 3,000 for ext2 fs. You *can* go a lot higher, however the directory } access time starts to dominate any file operations, since it searches } linearly. 3,000 is about the most files you want in any directory } which is going to be frequently accessed. Or, if you enjoy living on the bleeding edge, install reiserfs, which uses a btree to index files. I've used this on a webserver that needed to store per-session data in small files; reiserfs didn't slow down until we got past about 500,000 files in one directory. Jim -- Jim Zajkowski
