[pmwiki-users] Re: Per-group subdirectories in wiki.d/

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> I believe the limit for ext2 (and ext3) is 32,000 files in a
> directory, as controlled by the definition of EXT2_LINK_MAX in
 > include/linux/ext2_fs.h :
> 
>     #define EXT2_LINK_MAX           32000

Found it.

The ext2fs source says for EXT2_LINK_MAX:

   Maximum number of links to a file

Seems like the ".." entry in the subdirectory is a (hard?) link to its 
parent, and that limits the number of subdirectories (but not the number 
of files).

Regards,
Jo