Re: How many files can be in one directory?

True, but by putting them in multiple directories if you ran out of room you could move one of those directories to a new disk/filesystem thereby making more room... On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Andy wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >