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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] san rr com> 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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