TC <do-not-reply@i-do get-enough-spam-already-2498.com> 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?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

  I think most file systems (such as ReiserFS) have O(log n) indexing for
files in a directory. So they don't get degraded at all.

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                                                          - Warp

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