Max Files Per Directory

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:04:22AM -0400, fredex wrote:
> Now, for performance reasons, it is often not a good idea ot have
> many thousands of files in a single directory. As the number of files
> grows large the time it takes to access a file grows larger. I haven't
> looked into this on any linux file system, but on other unixes I've
> observed delays reaching up into the whole-second region when many thousands
> of files are in a single directory.

Shouldn't be a problem on a new install of ext3 on modern Linux. See
<http://lwn.net/Articles/11481/>. 


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