On Wed May 10 2000 at 11:19, "Erry Rahmawan" wrote:
> thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately I need to know how to configure
> linux to support file system more than 32000 subfolders.
> For machine performance, for next step we will reconfigure our application
> system to support 2nd class directory.
I strongly suspect that you'll have to recompile a new kernel
after tweaking the sources to get it do what you want.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend implementing this, for the same
reasons as Irving has stated. I would suggest that you
reconfigure your application to support more a more sensible
subdirectory structure.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
> >On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:36:45PM +0700, Erry
> >Rahmawan wrote:
> >
> >> I need to make a 100,000 sub folder, and our linux
> >> can only reach 32000 sub folder.
> >
> >You might be best off to change the design slightly,
> >because having such a large directory is usually very
> >slow, even if it is possible to do. One commonly
> >used technique is to have a second level in between,
> >so perhaps all files whose names begin with "a" would
> >be in the "a" subdirectory of the parent, rather than
> >in the parent itself. Similarly for "b", and so on.
Cheers
Tony
