Peter via Dng said on 11 Oct 2025 06:56:51 -0700

>From:    Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???>
>Date:    Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:45:23 +0200
>> With an EXTn file system, and especially over NFS, more files per 
>> directory is the *last* thing I need.  

>
>My knowledge of the limits of the various Ext systems is minimal. In
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2 "Directory indexing is not
>available in ext2, so there are performance issues for directories
>with a large number of files (>10,000). The theoretical limit on the
>number of files in a directory is 1.3 * 10^20,[original research?]
>although this is not relevant for practical situations."
>
>Appears that in Ext4, files per directory won't be a problem.

I've used Ext4 for more than a decade. Believe me, things slow horribly
when you get too many files in one directory using Ext4.

SteveT

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