Re: Any problem with having 100,000 files

[Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@EINTR.net>]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 05:07:57PM +0200, Dries Schellekens wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, J. Scott Edwards wrote:
> 
> > Are there any problems with having 100,000 files or more on the OpenBSD
> > file system?
> 
> If you don't put them into one directory, there will be no problem.

Directories are not gouverned by the same rules as files.

Because there is a hard link upper limit of 32767 in an inode for
the FFS file system.

All directories have a ".." file pointing back to their parent inode
[thus increasing the parent hard-link counter]. So there is a maximum
limit of 32676 directories in a single directory.
 
In the end, you must be more carefull about your directory creation
scheme than the number of files in a single directory.

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dries
> -- 
> Dries Schellekens
> email: gwyllion@ulyssis.org

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