Max Files in a sub-directory

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    How many files i can have in a sub directory ?
    in Linux/windows?!
     
    redhits, Feb 15, 2008 IP
  2. AstarothSolutions

    AstarothSolutions Peon

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    For windows NTFS the limit was 4,294,967,295 files but dont know if this has changed since the last time I looked into it (days of win2k)
     
    AstarothSolutions, Feb 16, 2008 IP
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    shallowink Well-Known Member

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    ext 2: The limit of sublevel-directories is about 32768. If the number of files in a directory exceeds 10000 to 15000 files, the user will normally be warned that operations can last for a long time. The theoretical limit on the number of files in a directory is 1.3 × 10(20). Thats 10 to the 20th power.....

    Imagine ext3 matches or exceeds this.
    NTFS information hasn't changed.
    Site to check is : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
     
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