[buug] linux filesystem limitations

[Sean Neakums]

Nick Jennings <nkj at iaminsane.com> writes:

> 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?

Given that the citation of a 32k limits came from
Documentation/ext2.txt, I would say that that is also a limit specific
to ext2/ext3.  I am fairly sure that XFS supports larger directories
than that, but I can't find anything to cite right now.

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Sean Neakums - <sneakums at zork.net>