The maximum number of files under a folder

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Theodore Tso,

	In 64bit system, directory size can not be bigger than 2GB?

======= 2008-03-14 01:23:18 您在来信中写道：=======

>On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:48:50PM -0400, John Nelson wrote:
>> i think not more than 5k files without dir_index on. The max limit of 
>> subfolders is 32k
>
>There is no limit to the number of files in a folder, except for the
>fact that the directory itself can't be bigger than 2GB, and the
>number of inodes that the entire filesystem has available to it.  Of
>course, if you don't have directory indexing turned on, you may not
>like the performance of doing directory lookups, but that's a
>different story.
>
>						- Ted
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