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April 27th, 2008, 08:26 PM
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It depends on the filesystem you use and the amount of space you have on your hard disk drive. On an average ReiserFS filesystem the limit is something around 4 billion files which is more than what any user would use up in most cases.
In Unix, a directory contains a name and a inode number for every file in it. If we say that a typical file name is 20 bytes long together with 4 bytes for the inode, then we can get 2147483648 /24 = 89,478,485 files in a directory. With smaller file names, you could up that a bit. Hope this helps
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April 27th, 2008, 08:45 PM
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I suspect you'll be happier if you design things so you don't need to worry about the answer to your question
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