On Sun, 7 May 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> apmail@modperlhelp.com wrote:
> >
> > OK, I ran into unexpected brick wall with our fast growing internet
> > service internettrash.com
> >
> Can you use symlinks?
> There's a limit of 32000 subdirectories in each directory, but AFAIK
> there's virtually no limit on the number of files in a directory.
>
> But ext2 is slow with thousands of entries in one directory, you should
> definitively use subdirectories and mod rewrite.
>
> Or try reiserfs, they have optimized their filesystem for lots of
> entries in one directory.
>
ReiserFS is still limited by the 16 bit link count for directories, so you
can't have more than around 65,000 subdirectories with the same parent.
-chris
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