On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry if the question is dumb but I did a little looking around and couldn't find anything relevant. So the question is, is there are limit on the number of files and/or directories one could store in an ext3 and ext4 file system? If the answer is "yes, there is" - what is that limit?
Thanks.
Boris.
Boris, I don't know if there is a true limit, but many filesystem types fall down performance wise well before they hit true limits. For instance, with NTFS I've seen 3 1/2 million files in one directory, so in theory it works. But at about 10,000 files, the performance starts to drop. At 3 1/2 million files it took forever to work with the files in that directory. The moral is you need to test for performance even if the limit is above your needs. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org