On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:31:52PM -0300, Guilherme Barile wrote: > Hi > I'm developing something for data archival/retriaval (documents). > Can someone tell me how many files I may have on one directory (ext2fs) > Thanks in advance
im not sure what the limit is, its very high, but the problems with ext2 is it gets very very slow the more files you add to a single directory. you will run into severe performance problems long before you run into a hard limit. you can do one of two things about this: 1) use a directory hash scheme, eg: foo/a/alpha foo/b/beta and so on. 2) use a different filesystem, such as SGI's XFS or reiserfs. note that reiserfs does not work on big endian archtectures such as powerpc, sparc and m68k, XFS is fine on these. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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