[openbeos] Re: Max number of files on BFS?

> Hey,
> 
> Using either BFS or OpenBFS, what is, in real-life situations, the 
> highest number of files you can have on a) a BFS volume, and b) a 
> directory on a BFS volume?
> 
> Think: E-mail message archival on a 4.7 GB (== DVD size) BFS volume.
> 
> The reason I ask this is because I noticed my system got a lot faster 
> when I moved over all my email (10k files) to another volume than the 
> boot volume, and now I intend to keep it that way, because of the 
> ease-
> of-use when backing up (instead of having to do the zip -9ry dance.)
> 

Theorically as many as inodes you can store on that, minus the place 
it's taking 
in directories and indices.
Now, the maximum number it can handle and the maximum number before it 
starts to crawl is not the same..
I think it might be more of an index updating problem... but I don't 
know much on that.

François.

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