unix question: files per directory

[David W. Barts]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question.  As several 
responses have pointed out, the only limit is imposed by file
size; however, things get painfully slow well before the directory
size reaches the maximum file size.

David W. Barts  N5JRN, Ph. 509-376-1718 (FTS 444-1718), dxxb at beta.lanl.GOV
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