RE: [PHP] How many files can be in one directory?

Yes and no. The directory would use an inode, but splitting the stores into separate directories would help drastically improve cpu and memory utilization when working with large numbers of files (10's of thousands) Right or wrong that's what I have to say -----Original Message----- From: Andy [mailto:news.letters@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:32 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > > -- 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