TC wrote:
> To all Linux gurus here: can anybody tell me how many files can be stored in 
> a Linux directory without performance degradation? Or is there no limit for 
> directory entries on Linux file systems?

Now I have a vague recollection of somebody at uni telling us that ext2 
works by storing 4096 file entries in an inode. Once you have more files 
than that, the inode stores a pointer to another inode. This inode 
contains not file pointers, but inode pointers. So at this level of 
indirection, you can have up to 4096 * 4096 files. I vaguely recall that 
if you exhaust this, it goes to a third level of indirection. But I 
can't remember whether it stops there.

Of course, given the source this information came from, it could be 
completely bogus. ;-)

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