From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: suntrop@web.de
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File limit inside a single directory
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:52:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150213185253.GB26115@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-232bc979-0b76-4776-a65c-b6697428d0a4-1423846162245@3capp-webde-bs16>
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 05:49:22PM +0100, suntrop@web.de wrote:
> Thanks guys. I was afraid of having a couple 100K (at most). The
> server support team told me not to have more than 10 to 20K. There
> seems to be a misconception (for me and people from the CMS) about
> the 32K subdirectory limit, but this ins't for files/folders within
> a single directory but rather nested directories like
> /1/2/3.../32000
In general the limitation you will hit first is one of performance,
rather than a hard limit. Using nested directories, i.e.,
/home/t/y/t/tytso will generally be a performance win if you can do
it.
Cheers,
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-12 19:16 File limit inside a single directory suntrop
2015-02-12 19:35 ` Eric Sandeen
[not found] ` <trinity-18fd0cfe-2cce-4517-bfdc-031a7a4a4e80-1423772290927@3capp-webde-bs55>
[not found] ` <54DD0B7B.7020002@redhat.com>
2015-02-12 20:35 ` suntrop
2015-02-13 0:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2015-02-13 16:49 ` suntrop
2015-02-13 17:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-02-14 10:17 ` suntrop
2015-02-14 18:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2015-02-13 18:52 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
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