{"id":12430,"date":"2016-12-27T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T11:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/?p=12430"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T11:01:38","slug":"maximum-number-of-files-in-a-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/maximum-number-of-files-in-a-directory-12430","title":{"rendered":"Maximum number of Files in a Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Different file systems in different Operating Systems has different limitations in the number of files that can be in a directory as determined by the underlying architecture.. Here is an overview of maximum of number of files that you can have in a directory and associated problems, if any, like performance.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32\">FAT32<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximum number of files: 268,173,300<\/li>\n<li>Maximum number of files per directory: 2<sup>16<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01 (65,535)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum file size: 2\u00a0GiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01 without <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large_file_support\">LFS<\/a>, 4\u00a0GiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01 with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NTFS\">NTFS<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximum number of files: 2<sup>32<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01 (4,294,967,295)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum file size\n<ul>\n<li>Implementation: 2<sup>44<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a02<sup>6<\/sup> bytes (16\u00a0TiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a064\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>Theoretical: 2<sup>64<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a02<sup>6<\/sup> bytes (16\u00a0EiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a064\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Maximum volume size\n<ul>\n<li>Implementation: 2<sup>32<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01\u00a0clusters (256\u00a0TiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a064\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>Theoretical: 2<sup>64<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01\u00a0clusters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ext2\">ext2<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximum number of files: 10<sup>18<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Maximum number of files per directory: ~1.3\u00a0\u00d7\u00a010<sup>20<\/sup> (performance issues past 10,000)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum file size\n<ul>\n<li>16\u00a0GiB (block size of 1\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>256\u00a0GiB (block size of 2\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>2\u00a0TiB (block size of 4\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>2\u00a0TiB (block size of 8\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Maximum volume size\n<ul>\n<li>4\u00a0TiB (block size of 1\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>8\u00a0TiB (block size of 2\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>16\u00a0TiB (block size of 4\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<li>32\u00a0TiB (block size of 8\u00a0KiB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ext3\">ext3<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximum number of files: minimum (volume Size\u00a0\/\u00a02<sup>13<\/sup>,\u00a0number of Blocks)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum file size: <em>same as ext2<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Maximum volume size: <em>same as ext2<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ext4\">ext4<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximum number of files: 2<sup>32<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01 (4,294,967,295)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum number of files per directory: unlimited<\/li>\n<li>Maximum file size: 2<sup>44<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01\u00a0bytes (16\u00a0TiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum volume size: 2<sup>48<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01\u00a0bytes (256\u00a0TiB\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different file systems in different Operating Systems has different limitations in the number of files that can be in a directory as determined by the underlying architecture.. Here is an overview of maximum of number of files that you can have in a directory and associated problems, if any, like performance. FAT32 Maximum number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}