On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: > A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one > directory?
As many as you want... but accessing them will get slower when more files are placed in a directory. I don't know the exact numbers from mind, but files (directory entries) are placed in i-nodes. There is a limited number of space in these i-nodes, when it fils up there will be pointers to new i-nodes that contain more files for this directory. The more files... the slower accessing them gets... -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl
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