Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: HFS directory allocation? Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 00:47:47 GMT References: <1991Feb15.200946.38986@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <809@treehouse.UUCP> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: andyp@treehouse.UUCP's message of 16 Feb 91 18:11:57 GMT In article <809@treehouse.UUCP> andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman) writes: Directories (and files) are given a new 32 bit number every time a new one is created. This is reflected in the directory ID number that you use in most of the HFS File Manager calls. I had a hard disk which hadn't been initialized in a LONG time that had directory IDs well above 40000. It would probably take longer to create more than 100,000 or so files than most hard disk would last. I wouldn't worry about it! Not 100,000--4,294,967,296. At one directory per second (computer could probaby go faster, but not within the Finder interface), that's about 134 years. DEFINITELY longer than your HD will last. -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/