An Ext4 question...

Matt Graham danceswithcrows at usa.net
Sun Aug 9 07:45:07 MST 2009


From: Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
> IIRC, ext3 has a limit of 32k or so files in a folder.

Not quite.  There is a hard upper limit of 32768 subdirectories in a
directory.  If you're using a hashed dir index (which has been the
default for a long time), you can have 100,000 to 1,000,000 files in
one directory without performance problems.

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