how do you determine the max number files can be stored in a single directory on the

genux33 · 12-13-2005, 07:27 AM

how do you determine the max number files can be stored in a single directory on the linux box?

320mb · 12-13-2005, 02:51 PM

Linux File System Quotas

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ialQuotas.html

michaelk · 12-13-2005, 05:40 PM

It depends on the filesystem.

With ext2/ext3 I first thought it was dependent on the number of inodes but after some searching I saw posts where the max was 2^15 (32768). reiserfs can handle 1.2 million files per directory and xfs is in the order of millions.