I believe the only limit is the number of inodes configured when the filesystem was made. That's a system-wide limit though, not a per-directory. I could be wrong though, it's happened before...
ty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Campbell McLeay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: [SLUG] Maximum number of files per directory? > Hi, > > Does anyone know whether there is a limit on the number of files > per directory for ext2 filesystems. The machine is running 2.4.19 > kernel, Debian potato. I imagine that even that there is a limit > it might slow down fsck considerably. I'm asking because someone > has a directory with 12000+ (small-ish) files on our webserver...:) > > cheers, > > Campbell > -- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug http://careers.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Careers - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
