Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:43 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Max # of Files in a Directory? Message-ID: <20040902224043.GA30143@procyon.nekulturny.org>
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Hi. I googled for this but I couldn't find an answer. What is the largest number of files that can exist in a single directory in FreeBSD? I ask because I'm using courier-imap using a Maildir mailbox and I started seeing all kinds of errors when trying to copy more than 16383 messages into one of my folders there. I'm retrieving mail from a pop3 server using Outlook then copying them into my imap folder, also using Outlook. I guess my real question is, what is the bottleneck in this situation? Outlook? courier-imap? Or FreeBSD? -- Danny
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