Practical no. of files per dir was: [OpenAFS] Max number of files in volume?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
>
> >> Anyone know if I'll hit any limits (eg, are the AFS directories searched
> >> linearly, or is there an index?)
> >
> > There's a per-directory limit. Todd DeSantis explained the math, you'll
> > have to search the archives to find the message. Basically, it's not a
> > fixed number, it depends how large the filenames are.
>
> ISTR a number around 64K

Yes. Unless you happen to still be running AMS, which can get 31707 files
in the directory. Ask me why I know.