I'm wondering at what point ext3 starts having issues with number of files in a directory. For instance, will any of the utilities fail (ls, mv, chown etc) if you have more than x files in a directory? At what point does things really start slowing down? I was told by a coworker that all UNIX varieties have to do an ordered list search when they have to preform any operations on a directory. They also stated that if there is more than 100k files in a directory, these tools would fail. This seems like a low number to me but I was looking for some expert analysis. :) Thanks Will -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
