• To: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Handling very large instance docs
• From: "Alex Brown" <alex@x...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:18:52 +0100
• Organization: XMLOpen
• References: <20040430112956.OUPR11990.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>
• Reply-to: "Alex Brown" <alex@x...>

> At one time Windows NT used to blue-screen if you tried to put more than
> 65,535 files in a directory. Perhaps they've fixed that by now, but I
> wouldn't bank on it.

For NTFS this isn't a problem; for FAT32 it is. See
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

Large numbers of files in a folder/directory can cause problems for some
older *nix filesystems too...

- Alex.

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