Hi Henrik & Randall, > I just went and read that too - "links per inode" would include both > directories or files or a mix of both. I checked the filesystem code > for this, the ext3 inode is limited by a 16bit "links_count". Under > linux (UNIX) a directory simply contains a list of names and their > inodes (a "link") - there is no difference at that level between a > "file" and a "sub-directory". > >> I just checked the ext3 limits on wikipedia, apparently it can't >> handle more than roughly 32000 sub folders inside a folder, it's >> unclear whether that applies to files too or not. >> >> Anyway, how does it work, could this level be reached or is there a >> stopper somewhere?
I don't think the number of files is limited this way. I can definitely create a directory with over 100k files directly in it. Inodes seem to form a linked list so it just gets slow to work with when there are lots of files. Cheers, Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe
