From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 07:52:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10437 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 07:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monsoon.dial.pipex.net (monsoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA10410 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 07:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com) Received: (qmail 7739 invoked from network); 7 Sep 1998 14:51:52 -0000 Received: from userm068.uk.uudial.com (HELO ?193.149.77.118?) (193.149.77.118) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 7 Sep 1998 14:51:52 -0000 Received: from mcg-graphics.com by mcg-graphics.com ; 07 Sep 98 14:58:20 UT Message-ID: <35F3F483.AE59329F@mcg-graphics.com> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 15:58:11 +0100 From: Gary Hall Reply-To: gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com Organization: MCG Graphics Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Limit to number of files in a directory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any limit to the number of files that can be stored in a directory in FreeBSD ? We intend to use our FreeBSD machine as an FTP server to store images of jobs on and estimate somewhere in the area of a million in a single directory. Would this cause a problem ? Thanks -- Gary Hall Management Information Systems Manager MCG Graphics Ltd e-mail: gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com web: http://www.mcg-graphics.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message