Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?
On 04/26/2010 07:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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? :-)
>
Um, well, use the first Chinese character as a sub-directory name.
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