Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:01:19 +0800 From: "Edwin chan" <huacheng@public.guangzhou.gd.cn> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: directory limitation ? Message-ID: <001101c07457$848ec620$5801a8c0@suntop.com> References: <200012290903.eBT93LO54774@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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thanks, all of you. All answers give me many knowledge. ----- Original Message ----- From: Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> To: <huacheng@public.guangzhou.gd.cn> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 5:03 PM Subject: Re: directory limitation ? > > > I remember the old MSDOS have some limitation on directory, > > but haven't clear conception.I just know if I store files > > more than the limitation, DIR command got very slowly. > > > > I want to store more than 10000files on one directiory. I want > > to know if FreeBSD/Linux/otherUNIXlike have any limitation > > rules ? Where I can got information to clear my conception ? > > FreeBSD will be very slow with thousands of files in one directory. > > Linux can be fast or slow, depending on what filesystem you use. > Ext2 is the default filesystem, which gives FreeBSD-like behavior. > If you use the Reiserfs filesystem instead, you will get good > performance with millions of files in one directory. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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