Well, I use ext2. If I understand ext2 correctly, you may have 32k 
subdirectories before linux throws the towel. Would it crash? Or be graceful 
about it? I surely will not try it out...
However, I cannot find anything about the number of files I can store in a 
single directory. I assume that this number is limited by diskspace only.

But it is no good to assume. And since I know no linux guru but am pretty 
sure here are quite a lot of them to be found, I asked the question. I would 
hate to delve through tons of technical documentation.

I did not know about the indexing flag, though, thank you. Maybe I'll find 
more on it.

It's always a surprise what can or cannot be done with or to a filesystem if 
you take a closer look. I really hate the ADS on Windows NTFS, for 
instance - I find this an abomination. ;-)

"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:4ab025ff$1@news.povray.org...
> TC wrote:
>> On a web server I have about a thousand product shots in a single 
>> directory (web shop demands it) - how many more before Linux stops to 
>> like me? ;-)
>
> That depends more on the file system than the kernel. If you're using ext2 
> or ext3 (I think both have it) there's a flag you can turn on that says to 
> build extra indexes for directories. Otherwise, I think they're linear.
>
> -- 
>   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
>   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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