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- Lines: 9
- Date:
Wed Jul 11 15:44:45 2001
- Orig file:
v2.4.6/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
- Orig date:
Fri Apr 20 16:18:35 2001
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.6/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@
so 8kB blocks are only allowed on Alpha systems (and other architectures
which support larger pages).
+There is an upper limit of 32768 subdirectories in a single directory.
+
There is a "soft" upper limit of about 10-15k files in a single directory
with the current linear linked-list directory implementation. This limit
stems from performance problems when creating and deleting (and also
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