Re: problems with large directories?
Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:14:40 -0800, Christian Kujau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 at 07:11, Alex Bligh 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. You can create a lot of files (though things work slowly). I think there was a typo above and that it should have said dirs per dir, not files per dir.