Re: Any problem with having 100,000 files

["J. Scott Edwards" <sedwards@xmission.com>]

They would be spread out over a several directories.  For curiosity, what
is the limit in one directory?  If I had 5,000 files in one directory,
what kind of things would be slow?

Thanks
  -Scott


On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Jedi/Sector One wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:45:30AM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote:
> > Are there any problems with having 100,000 files or more on the OpenBSD
> > file system?
>
>   On the whole filesystem, no.
>   In a single directory, yes. Lookups will be very slow.
>
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