An Ext4 question...

[Eric Shubert]

Matt Graham wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks for clearing that up Matt. I saw the subdirectory limit hit once, 
  not file limit. This was totally unrelated to Maildirs btw.

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-Eric 'shubes'