Re: problems with large directories?

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 9 March 2010 01:14:40 -0800 Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> > > Finally, remember that ext2/3 has a limit of 32000 or so files per dir.
> > My IMAP spool suggests this is false w.r.t. ext3
>
> Did you use any special options when creating this ext3 filesystem? I've
> just tried but was only able to create 31998 directories in one directory.

As Ted pointed out off list, the limit is the number of subdirectories
in a directory, not the number of files in a directory.

--
Alex Bligh

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