Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?
On Saturday 24 April 2010 09:16:46 Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:03:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/23/2010 11:13 PM, Siju George wrote:
> >> ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that
> >> limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning for
> >> JFS
> >>
> >> Does anybody has any recommendations?
> >
> > Since Mike Bird has demonstrated your erroneous claim, plz show us the
> > real error message.
>
> Is Wikipedia ext3 article¹ wrong then? :-?
>
> ***
> Limits
>
> Max number of files Variable, allocated at creation time[1]
>
> [1] The maximum number of inodes (and hence the maximum number of files
> and directories) is set when the file system is created. If V is the
> volume size in bytes, then the default number of inodes is given by V/213
> (or the number of blocks, whichever is less), and the minimum by V/223.
> The default was deemed sufficient for most applications. The max number
> of subdirectories in one directory is fixed to 32000.
> ***
>
> Note that "The max number of subdirectories in one directory is fixed to
> 32000."
>
> ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3
The article to which you link refers to subdirectories. The OP refers to
files. subdirectories != files.
English can be a pain when it is not your first language - and, come to that,
even if it is. ;-)
Lisi
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