Maximum Number of entries in a directory
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Sep 20 15:16:19 PDT 2006
Simon--er, no...it was Scott Walker--said:
> Any opinions as to the maximum number of entries you can have in a
> directory before you have a severe degradation in performance?
About 500.
> Is Linux different than SCO in this regard?
It's filesystem dependant, but I think most of the 32bit fs's will be
similar. It's at the point where you hit double dereferencing of inodes
that the performance drops like a stone.
mark->
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