Re: how many files per dir possible?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:08:24 +0400 (MSD)

In <3778BE25.66D34BEF@fl.priv.at> Friedrich Lobenstock (fl@fl.priv.at) wrote:
> Excuse me, but I couldn't find anything about how many files a
> directory can hold. I only found something about slowing down
> if there are a lot of files.

Ok. I had run-away script and thus I had directory with 500000 files in it.
Just ls there will work few MINUTES ! And rm -rf worked few HOURS ! You do not
want thousands of files in one dir on current ext2fs, believe me ...

P.S. What about reiserfs, BTW ?

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