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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers No. of files in a directory Post 302132688 by Perderabo on Sunday 19th of August 2007 02:58:56 AM
Old 08-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by lorcan
I just wanted to tell about the number of links/directories in a directory.
If you cross a certain limit of dir in a folder you would be getting a error like "Too Many Links" in HP-UX

MAXLINK does not affect the number of files that can be stored in a directory. I have seen directories with much more than MAXLINK files in a directory on HP-UX. In every subdirectory, the file called .. must be a link to the parent directory. And so MAXLINK would limit the number of direct subdirectories in a directory, but it does not affect ordinary files. I would like to point out again that common sense should limit the number of files in a directory. Very large directories will slow down performance.
 

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