From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 12:52:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA23871 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mh1.cts.com (root@mh1.cts.com [205.163.24.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA23863 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:52:04 -0800 (PST) From: wss@king.cts.com Received: from engineering ([204.94.95.22]) by mh1.cts.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA11104 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:52:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703262052.MAA11104@mh1.cts.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:55:03 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Max # of files in One Directory Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am using FreeBSD. I currently have one directory containing 7000+ files. Is there a limit on the total number of different files that can be in a single directory? If so, can that limit be changed by tweeking with the kernel, if so, where should I look? I truely appreciate any help. -Garrett www.websidestory.com ---- WebSideStory, Inc. is currently receiving 13.2 million httpd requests to cgi scripts every 24 hourse on 5 servers running apache server software and FreeBSD.