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

[Mike Fedyk]

Hamie wrote:
> 
> is there an artificial limit on the number of files in a volume? or the 

Now that this is solved.  I have a question about practical no. of file 
limits.

I'm interested in running a MailDir based mail server over AFS.  That 
formats each message into a separate file, and each filename is about 
30-50 chars.  I have done tests with 100,000 messages in one folder with 
Linux 2.6 and ext3.

Anyone know if I'll hit any limits (eg, are the AFS directories searched 
linearly, or is there an index?)

Thanks,

Mike