Directory file limts

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:18:20PM +0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
>On 10/13/05, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote:
>> >Greetings
>> >
>> >Can someone tell me if there is a limit to the number of files in a
>> >directory, and if so what is it? Or is the answer to this question
>> >dependent on what file system is being used?
>>
>> I've never heard of a maximum number of files in a directory at all. Not
>> on any system or filesystem... is there a max in some fs that you know
>> of?
>
>IIRC, was (and probably still is) not possible to create more than 128
>files in a root directory in FAT16 :-)

Cool, didn't know that. Yet another reason to stay as far away from
FAT16 as possible, I guess.

/M

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