Maximum files per Directory

Andreas Rogge (lu01@rogge.yi.org)
Tue, 01 May 2001 22:48:02 +0200

While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes
with
cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
more files in a directory.

Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue?

Andreas Rogge <lu01@rogge.yi.org>
Available on IRCnet:#linux.de as Dyson
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