The maximum number of files under a folder
Theodore Tso
tytso at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 20 11:28:49 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:59:59PM +0800, liuyue wrote:
> Thank you all.
>
> Now I find a patch which can extend ext3 subdirectory limit.
> http://osdir.com/ml/file-systems.ext2.devel/2004-12/msg00026.html
That's *subdirectories*, not files. The maximum number of files per
directory are basically limited as discussed in this thread. The
number of subdirectories was limited by the 16-bit i_nlink field.
Andreas' idea for extending this limit, as described above, is in
ext4.
Regards,
- Ted
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