Re: How many files can be in one directory?
| From: | Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos | Date: | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:39:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How many files can be in one directory? | ||
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Andy wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am building a web application which is storing pictures.
>
> Is there a limit of files in one directory on LINUX systems? Perhaps it
> might end in a problem after having 30000 files in the same dir? Performance
> issues ore something else.
The limit depends on how many inodes you have on the filesystem this dir resides on. This is a
parameter when first mke3fs was ran to create the fs. Usually you'll have 1 i-node every 4096
bytes and you need 1 inode per file. So do your calculations depending on the size of your
partition.
cheers,
thalis
>
> Has anybody got experiance on that?
>
> Thanx for any comment,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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