Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:04:40 -0700 From: "Philip Hallstrom" <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files limit question Message-ID: <200005042104.OAA57898@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>
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> > Hi, > > > > I have a questoin about FreeBSD. > > Can you tell me what's the limit of files in a directory on a FreeBSD > > System? I mean, can I have a million files in a directory? > > > A directory file in FreeBSD can arbitrarily large. > -Zhihui Although, I don't think you want to since I think it will take a long time to "find" files within that directory. I know that when I used to work at an ISP we split up users home directories... so rather than have: /home/joe .....thousands of other users here... /home/bob we had /home/j/joe ..... /home/b/bob to keep the directories smaller. That was on DEC Alpha's though..although it's still probably a good idea. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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