[buug] linux filesystem limitations

Nick Jennings nkj at iaminsane.com
Wed Apr 16 12:27:46 PDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:37:59AM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote:
> 
> Also, both resierfs and XFS already use directory layouts that cope
> well with large numbers of files.  The work referenced above is work
> specific to ext2/ext3.

 So with XFS in particular, the limitation of 32k still applies, it's
 just that the handling of that number is better optomized than with
 ext2/3 correct?

- Nick




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