MAx size of a directory

[PVR]

What is the maximum size of a directory in HP Unix and soalris ?

Which parameter is controlling the same?

Thanks in advance !!

[Simon Hargrave · Accepted solution]

There is no limit to the number of files in any one particular subdirectory on a filesystem. The only limits are the number of inodes on the filesystem.

df -i will show inode usage.

the only thing to note is that if you have a single directory with many (thousands) of files in, you may see a slight performance hit.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

I think the limit is the limit in the number of inodes that can be created on a filesystem. Thus this depends on the filesytstem you use. On HPUX changes are this is VXFS and there is no limit in number of inodes.

For performance and surveyability it is not wise to have to many files in a dir.

HTH,

Gideon

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

There are no limits beyond the filesystem size and max inode for a directory for both Solaris as HPUX.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Simon Hargrave]

Yes as has been said, on VxFS filesystems, inode count is, by default, unlimited.

It can however be explicitly limited at filesystem create time by passing the -o ninode=XXXX parameter to mkfs -F vxfs.

[Franky_1]

Hi,

normally the only limit is the amount of available i-nodes (show it with df -i). Otherwise there are no restrictions.

Regards

Franky