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From: "Philip Hallstrom" <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:04:40 -0700
Subject: Re: Files limit question
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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



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