Re: Max no of files in a directory
- From: Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:48:26 -0500
On 2008-05-30, Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Smeeta staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I want to find out the max number of files possible in a directory.
On which filesystem? If ReiserFS, which hash is being used? The
answers to these questions will determine the answer to your question.
doesn't seem to be the number in /proc/sys/fs/file-max coz I've been
able to create [more] files than that.
file-max is the maximum number of file handles that the kernel will
allocate at one time, not the number of files you can have in one
directory.
At some point in history (several years ago), I ran into
problems when there were more than 4096 files in a directory on
an EXT2 system. But, IIRC the problem was in certain
application-space libraries not with the actual filesystem.
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