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From: jsm@vax1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: directory size
Message-ID: <307@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 08:40:14 EST
Article-I.D.: vax1.307
Posted: Sat Mar 21 08:40:14 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:33:56 EST
References: <202@eurifb.UUCP> <1591@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsm@vax1.UUCP (Jon Meltzer)
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Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: entries, maximum

In article <1591@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>In article <202@eurifb.UUCP> benno@eurifb.UUCP (Ben Noordzij) writes:
><Does anyone know how many entries are allowed in a (sub)directory ??
>
>Ya.  As many as you have disk space for.
>
>A sub-directory is like a file, it can keep expanding until you run
>out of disk space.
>-- 
Be careful though ... bugs have been reported in cases when a subdirectory
contained over 255 files.