There is a limitation of inode numbers in a filesystem. This implies to files and directories. You should check ext3 manuals/docs to see how can you calculate the limitation ..... Nicholas Anderson Administrador de Sistemas Unix LPIC-1 Certified Rede Fiocruz 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. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos