Ext3 file count limits

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Tue Oct 18 14:51:44 UTC 2011


J.Witvliet at mindef.nl wrote:
> How about ext4 ?
>  From what i remembererd from last fosdem, it was supposed to have much wider limitations and way faster....

ext4 has a 64k sub-directory limit.

XFS and btrfs do not have a (reachable) limit.


P.S. Since btrfs has been brought up, I would highly recommend *not* 
using it until there is an fsck tool.


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