Re: how many files per dir possible?

Gabor Lenart (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:58:12 +0200

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:37:57PM +0200, Friedrich Lobenstock 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.

afaik ext2 stores directory entries in a simple file-like unit, so there
is no limit for number of files in a directory only the maximum file size.
Of course system goes slow when storing lots of files since ext2 using
linear algortithm. I think eg raiserfs uses balanced trees and advanced
search algorithms based on trees to speed up this task.

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