Maximum size of directories
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On computers using ext[2-4], there is a hard limit to the total number of inodes that can be defined, hence the number of directories and/or files. That number is really high.
However, life becomes quite difficult when you have more than a few thousand files in a directory:
- Commands like
ls *
cannot expand to cover all objects:*
will be expanded to cover all objects before executing thels
command, and that won't work anymore - It just becomes plain difficult to work with content of such large directories.