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

[Chuck Wolber]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Xeno Campanoli wrote:

> Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Adam Monsen wrote:
> > 
> >> Is there a limit on the number of files in a directory other than just 
> >> the inode limit of a particular partition? I'm using the ext3 
> >> filesystem. Ubuntu 7.10.
> 
> Sorry man, but we tested that limit recently and it's exactly as I 
> documented in my post, which, oddly, hasn't come through.  Hey, 
> moderator!  Fix yourself!

Just tested it and posted results in a previous post. I'm now up to 45,000 
files in a single directory running on a stock debian sarge system with 
the macro link limit in ext3_fs.h set to 32000.

..Chuck..

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