Quoting Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:11:14AM +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote: > > I'm working on a little experimental script and I'm wondering if there > > is any kind of limit as to how many files or subdirectories a directory > > can have. > > Yes, there is a limit on how many subdirectories a directory can have. > This is because there is a limit on how many hardlinks there can be to > > > > I'm in the planing stages at the moment and I'm think that I may have > > upto 4096 directories in a single directory, each of these 4096 > > directories could have upto 4096 sub directories... > > That should not be a problem. Depending on how you access these > directories you *might* see some of the slowdown for large directories
FWIW- At some point you might want to ask... should this be a filesystem? or a database? If you're looking to stress test a FS that's one thing, but handling tens of thousands of little bits of data is sometimes managed better with a simple database. I've seen instances where a recursive script went *nuts* and created a directory structure so deep it couldn't be removed with a simple rm -rf. --daxbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
