problems with large directories?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:14:40 -0800,
  Christian Kujau <lists at nerdbynature.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 at 07:11, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > > Finally, remember that ext2/3 has a limit of 32000 or so files per dir.
> > My IMAP spool suggests this is false w.r.t. ext3
> 
> Did you use any special options when creating this ext3 filesystem? I've 
> just tried but was only able to create 31998 directories in one directory.

You can create a lot of files (though things work slowly). I think there
was a typo above and that it should have said dirs per dir, not files per dir.