From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 16:48:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 16:48:13 -0400 Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]:4356 "EHLO mailout02.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 16:48:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 22:48:02 +0200 From: Andreas Rogge To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Maximum files per Directory Message-ID: <272800000.988750082@hades> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes with cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be more files in a directory. Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue? Andreas Rogge Available on IRCnet:#linux.de as Dyson