Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 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.

Heh. You're confusing free space, used space, and i-nodes (which are 
descriptors for files).

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

It is.

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