On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Miles O'Neal wrote: > We can't use that on a file server; we have absolute requirements of more > than 32K directory entries at one level in a directory. This is required > by certain applications we use; there's no way around it. Can you point me to where the limit is stated, or the source code? This page http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=122241 suggests that there is only a limit of 32K subdirectories in a directory and the number of files limit is a lot larger. Of course I found this on the internet so it could easily be wrong! Also using -O dir_index on mke2fs will make life a lot faster (this is switched off by default in mke2fs, except when anaconda makes a file system). Jeremy