Re: problems with large directories?
Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
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Alex Bligh wrote: > > --On 9 March 2010 01:14:40 -0800 Christian Kujau <[email protected]> > 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. Argh you are right, sorry, brain burp. :) -Eric