Max # of Files in a Directory?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Sep 2 15:59:40 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Sep 02), Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Sep 02), Danny MacMillan said:
> > I googled for this but I couldn't find an answer.
> > 
> > What is the largest number of files that can exist in a single
> > directory in FreeBSD?  I ask because I'm using courier-imap using a
> > Maildir mailbox and I started seeing all kinds of errors when trying
> > to copy more than 16383 messages into one of my folders there.  I'm
> > retrieving mail from a
> 
> There's a limit of 16384 subdirectories in a single directory (due to

Sorry; Erik's right, the limit is 32767.

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	Dan Nelson
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