Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:

> In English the slash is understood to mean "or".  There is no limit of
> 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3.
> 
> There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory.  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

Hmm... what happens if you have a program that behaves that way, but
suddenly needs to start also using Chinese characters? :-)

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen         | tzafrir@jabber.org | VIM is
http://tzafrir.org.il |                    | a Mutt's
tzafrir@cohens.org.il |                    |  best
tzafrir@debian.org    |                    | friend