Re: How many files can be in one directory?

So this means, that I can not increas the amount by splitting the files into more than 1 directory? In fact it would make it even less, because dirs also need those i-nods, right? Thanx Andy "Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis@cs.pitt.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0202251637400.7686-100000@antimony.cs.pitt.edu... > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >