On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Ian wrote:
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:10:46 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories
within a
single directory.
This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the
number
of sub-directories in a single directory - can anyone tell me
what it is?
As far as I know, there is no such limit on the number of files/dirs
inside of a directory.
Thanks for that Jeremy. I didn't invent this structure, but I
daresay I can
either modify it or get the original writer to do that. I never
really gave
it a thought before now - it was the system I was given to work
with and it's
worked fine so far, except when I try to list the contents of the
directory -
that takes ages!
All the folders are 7 digit numbers and we are up to approx.
0010500 entries
(ie subdirs) so far.
I guess it will just be a matter of experimenting to find the
optimum number
of sub-sub-directories per sub-directory :-/
On the issue of possible inode limitations, it may be of some
reassurance
(or alarm ;-)) to look at the output of df -i. This will tell you if
you are close
to any limit on inodes. Between that and your already well known
counts of
directories and rate of creation, you can gauge how much time you
have to
change your app.
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