[Ilugc] Limit on Sub-folders / Files in Linux
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Fri Mar 28 20:08:05 2008
On 16:10:48 Mar 28, senthilraja P wrote:
Hi,
I heard that the number of sub-folders / files in a linux directory should
not exceed 32,000 . There is not enough material available in the net.
I am maintaining a blogging server in my company, using Wordpress MU. If
the sub-folders limit is true, then it will critically affect the
application that we are running.
How?
To begin with, I have no experience/knowledge on this.
I only suppose that there is a limit on the number of inodes one can
have.
I think it is possible to raise the limit by changing a #define and
recompiling the kernel. Or there could be other file system specific
fixes.
As to possible choices between file systems under linux again I dunno
much. I would imagine that XFS is good.
Just a wild idea. If you have a problem with this, how about using some
kind of virtual machine? Say qemu or UML?
You could split up the load across them.
Xen is also a good choice.
Anyway already I am out of my province.
Best of luck!
-Girish
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