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

[Derek Atkins]

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

-derek
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