"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@nextpath.com> said:
> Does anyone know the max file count per directory for exfs2? I browsed
> through the source, but I didn't see any max's defined.
Essentially limited only by free space on disk.
> I have a
> project converting one text blob field in a db to individual files, and
> expect to need at least 1K files per directory. Any help is
> appreciated.
Bad idea. ext2 does a sequential scan of the directory when looking for a
file, so this will blow up on you. Organize your files in a tree of
directories (f.ex. by first character in name, or some hash function).
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