[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Per-group subdirectories in wiki.d/
chr at home.se
chr at home.se
Sun Jun 19 06:51:00 CDT 2005
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> chr at home.se wrote:
> > PS. Wasn't there an old DOS limit of like 255 files per directory?
>
> The FAT file system is incredibly bad, but that was not one of its flaws.
>
> It *had* a fixed upper limit of file slots in the root directory. The
> exact limit could be set arbitrarily, though most formatting programs
> just used a heuristics based on media size.
Ah... now I remember. It was a long time ago, but I once actually struck
that limit for the root directory on an embedded PC system that I was
working on :-)
/Christian
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