-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:59:56PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > Just curious but is there a limitation on the number of files in a > directory? I am using ext3. > > I'm not concerned about file size just the number of files. I don't think there is actually a hardcoded limit, but I'm not sure. I can say for certain that 20000 files will work, but that is as high as I ever got. I can also say for certain that having that many file on a single directory is slow as hell, and would never do it again. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFNRFCpdyWzQ5b5ckRAi4yAJ93ZN5GdOxm7y5k756czRIP3vtRKgCbBr3P aL5cmhvxKLcwGl6ZxX8TeZI= =1kWd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----