[SLL] limit on number of files in a directory and hashed dir vs. flat dir file access time

[Rob Smith]

On 10/31/07, Rob Smith <kormoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> it will fail to create the last 6 links, as too many links.
>
> Ext3 will be glad to store trillions of files in a single dir, and
> with the dirindex b-tree hashes, it's not all that slow.

Ooh, one more thing. that only applys to hard links, if you use
symbolic links (link -s) it will do as many as you want again.

~Rob