Maximum Number Of Files In ext3

[mh3rn4nd3z3]

Is there a limit to the number of files ext3 can support?

Reason I'm asking is because on one of my internal drives, I have around 750,000 files. The drive is 500Gb and currently using 150Gb... I noticed recently that when I try to copy a new directory or file, the transfer rate is extremely slow at times. It is sataII and sometimes it gets as low as 500kb/s (yes, kb!)

Would somebody please shed some light?

I noticed it might be related to the process gvfsd-metadata

Please Help.

Thanks.

I'm using Fedora 12 64-bit
The transfer is from an ext3 to ext3 filesystem.

[Seve]

Hello:

I think if you run df -i for your /dev/xxx

it will tell you the inodes for that mounted files ystem and that should, as far as I know, be the amount of files it can support.

I may be mistaken and if so, someone will come along and correct me, I'm sure

Seve

[zeland]

If I remember correctly, you will get a some 'disk full' error if you hit an inode limit. Without opening the folder nautilus, do you face the same speed issues if you did the same things via console?

[mh3rn4nd3z3]

Hello:

I think if you run df -i for your /dev/xxx

it will tell you the inodes for that mounted files ystem and that should, as far as I know, be the amount of files it can support.

I may be mistaken and if so, someone will come along and correct me, I'm sure

Seve

not sure...

i got the same output for all my HDD's of different size and and the same percentage being used.

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If I remember correctly, you will get a some 'disk full' error if you hit an inode limit. Without opening the folder nautilus, do you face the same speed issues if you did the same things via console?

no, i have not in terminal, i don't think it should happen with the terminal though, just GUI is the problem

thanks.