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Subject: Re: UFS2 limits
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> Hi,
> I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single
> directory.
> This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the number of
> sub-directories in a single directory - can anyone tell me what it is?


make sure your kernel is compiled with

options         UFS_DIRHASH


or it will be slow


the limit is 32765, just because link count is 2 bytes wide and each 
subdir adds two to base directory. you have to change to 2 level 
hierarchy.


with files - i started creating empty files, it turned slow after 
about 320000.