I just found this in another forum. I sure would be helpful to know an exact number if anyone knows. (ext3 is basically the same ext2) "There is a limit of 32k (32768) subdirectories in a single directory, a limitation likely of only academic interest, as many people don't even have that many files (though huge mail servers may need to keep that in mind). The ext2 inode specification allows for over 100 trillion files to reside in a single directory, however because of the current linked-list directory implementation, only about 10-15 thousand files can realistically be stored in a single directory. This is why systems such as Squid ( http://www.squid-cache.org ) use cache directories with many subdirectories - searching through tens of thousands of files in one directory is sloooooooow. There is however a hashed directory index scheme under development which should allow up to about 1 million files to be reasonably stored in a single directory." : -- Tom Penney _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list