On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Glenn Rempe <[email protected]> wrote: > "The ext2 inode specification allows for over 100 trillion files to > reside in a single directory, however because of the current > linked-list directoryimplementation, only about 10-15 thousand files > can realistically be stored in a single directory. ... > Of course this will vary by filesystem in absolute terms, but I think > the concept is the same for all current file systems. No?
Uhm, well, for the record, basically, no :-) There's file systems that can use things like a tree instead of a linked list for directories. IOW more powerful file systems like ZFS or GPFS have different characteristics. Things like running 'ls' probably do become more and more expensive rather non-linearly across almost all filesystems, but you probably don't _really_ have to run that 'ls' :) All that said, put them /-es in your namespace name and you can probably stick with EXT2! ciao, - Leo
