On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of > 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. > > There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. This is caused by > the ext3 hard link count limit being 32000. Two links are needed for the > parent directory entry and the current directory's ".", leaving only > 31998 links available for ".." links from subdirectories. > > This limit is rarely encountered in practice because it is so much more > efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: > > parent- > a- > able > alf > b- > beta > bravo
Hmm... what happens if you have a program that behaves that way, but suddenly needs to start also using Chinese characters? :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
