Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:41:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Larry Johnson <larry@cooljohnsons.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system Message-ID: <20031231044108.GA84812@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1622164858.20031230150735@cooljohnsons.com> References: <1622164858.20031230150735@cooljohnsons.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 30), Larry Johnson said: > The file systems used in Linux are limited to 32,000 files or > subdirectories within any given directory. Does anybody know what the > limit is in FreeBSD? Can't find any info about this anywhere. I don't think there's really a limit on the number of files; I quite easily created 90k files in a directory with a shell script. The number of subdirectories in one directory is 32766, since the link count for a directory is stored as a signed 16-bit integer, and the parent directory will end up with 32767 links (one for itself, and 32766 to .. in each child directory). This is also trivial to verify with a shell script. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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