Max # of files/dirs under Linux?
bscott at ntisys.com
bscott at ntisys.com
Tue Dec 10 15:20:15 EST 2002
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, at 2:27pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> But a subdirectory is a file. (At least it was on good/bad old UFS.)
>> Why should there be a limit on subdirectories in a directory if there's
>> none on files?
>
> Dunno. Maybe because directories take up more than one inode?
But they don't.
Perhaps I should be talked into giving a presentation on how the
traditional Unix filesystem works. :-)
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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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