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

[Ray Link]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> > 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.

Okay, I'll bite, since we still run AMS.  (Not that we use it for much
of anything, except some legacy reporting utilities that no one looks
at anymore, anyways.)

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