linux-ext4 - Re: File limit inside a single directory

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:35:01 +0100
From:	suntrop@....de
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File limit inside a single directory

Cool, that sounds good.

Many thanks!

 
 
> Thanks for your reply. I’m using CMS ProcessWire which would create
> about 500.000 folders for 500 users and 1.000.000 folders for 1000
> users (only in my case and with my setup). All inside one directory.
> No Subfolders. The max filename length is 8 chars. I don’t know the
> actual block size my provider chose but assuming 2k or 4k blocks what
> limit would that sum to?

4k is the default...

but w/ 8 chars and even 2k blocks, you can still get around 8 million
entries.

But again: I'm not sure where that will fall off for you performance-wise.

-Eric
 
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