From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 04:27:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA02426 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 04:27:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tomahawk.cbn.net.id (tomahawk.cbn.net.id [202.158.2.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA02308 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 04:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from engel@cbn.net.id) Received: (qmail 1664 invoked from network); 2 Apr 1998 12:31:53 -0000 Received: from localhost.cbn.net.id (HELO cbn.net.id) (engel@127.0.0.1) by localhost.cbn.net.id with SMTP; 2 Apr 1998 12:31:53 -0000 Message-ID: <35238538.C3E03003@cbn.net.id> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 12:31:52 +0000 From: Engelhard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Number of files in a directory References: <3522DC20.4DD8EE56@excite.com> <35236F42.A345B4C@tdx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Pielorz wrote: > > I have directories with about 8 to 9 thousand in, and although 'ls'ing > a while, accessing the files quick... I guess it depends on what your > with them... > > I would imagine someone running a news-server would be able to answer > question a little better - I seem to remember they hold thousands of > in single dir's... ;-) > I would like to know how someone maintains a mail server for about 15,000 users. How to modify the adduser script to create mail and home directories in the hashes directory format ? > Brent Washburne wrote: > > > > What is the maximum optimal number of files for a directory? Is > > it in the tens, hundreds, or thousands? Thanks! > > Brent Washburne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message