[CentOS] files in a directory limitation

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 17:50:11 UTC 2006


On 10/17/06, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> Just curious but is there a limitation on the number of files in a
> directory? I am using ext3.

There is an upper bound for directories within a directory of around
63,000. I'm not certain if this applies to files as well.

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