interesting limitation

[Jure Pecar]

Hi all,

Recently i was testing a 2.2 branch on linux with Veritas vxfs. I wanted to
create 200000 users in the form of userN, where n is 1..200000. I soon found
out that vxfs won't let me create more than 32k subdirs in one dir.

This is clearly a limitation of the filesystem. How does other filesystems
handle this?

The solution here is full dir hash. But, the next limit is at 26*32k users.
Is anyone actually nearing this number of users on a single box? Probably
not, but who knows what the future may bring ... 


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Jure Pecar