From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 13:51:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3933137B405 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6B6F901AD2; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:44:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:44:56 -0400 From: mpd To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum Freebsd Directory entries? Message-ID: <20011005164456.A27000@rit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from clients@dreamtime.net on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:06:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:06:18AM -0700, Dreamtime.net Inc. wrote: > How many directories could be created in a directory under freebsd 3.2. If > there is some limitation, is it possible to work > around it? if there is a set limit, why would you want to raise it? access becomes RIDICULOUSLY slow when there are thousands of files in a directory. > > Sincerely, > > Stephen H. Kapit - President > Dreamtime.net Inc. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "I AM FINE! THIS CARPET SALESMAN BROKE MY FALL!" - Pokey the Penguin from "POKEY AND THE CANNON" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message