Re: File limit in ext2? [Possibly OT]

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 11:32:42 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:55:21AM -0600, Daniel Stone wrote:
> I'm just wanting to know if there's a limit to how many files you can have
> in any given directory in an ext2 partition.

As many as you want: it just gets slower with large directories.
Reiserfs is more scalable with big directories.

--Stephen

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