SPUG:CGI header question

[Simon Wilcox]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Chris Whip wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:56:48AM -0700, Peter Darley wrote:
> >		Database limits are far less restricting than file system limits.  I don't
> > know a lot about files systems, but it's my understanding that you are
> > limited to the number of files in a single directory.
> 
> This is mostly untrue for modern operating systems.

My understanding is that the ext2 filesystem on Linux has a practical
limit after which it switches from a tree search to a linear search and
the performance goes through the floor. Sadly I don't remember what the
limit is and I'd be interested to hear if that is still the case.

Simon.