On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:17:22 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat April 24 2010 07:00:37 Camaleón wrote: >> Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure >> the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> that in a correctly manner, it says something about *folders under a >> folder*... I hope "subdirectories = folders" is still valid. > > Hi Camaleón, > > In English the slash is understood to mean "or".
Yes, I know. Also in Spanish :-) > There is no limit of 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. Uh? :-? > There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. Uh? :-? And "directory = folder", isnt't it? > This is caused by the ext3 hard link count limit being 32000. Two > links are needed for the parent directory entry and the current > directory's ".", leaving only > 31998 links available for ".." links from subdirectories. > > This limit is rarely encountered in practice because it is so much more > efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: > > parent- > a- > able > alf > b- > beta > bravo And wasn't *that* the limit the OP was asking about or I misunderstood something? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.04.24.14.30...@gmail.com
