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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