Maximum Number of entries in a directory

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Simon--er, no...it was Scott Walker--said:
> Any opinions as to the maximum number of entries you can have in a
> directory before you have a severe degradation in performance?

About 500.

> Is Linux different than SCO in this regard?

It's filesystem dependant, but I think most of the 32bit fs's will be
similar.  It's at the point where you hit double dereferencing of inodes
that the performance drops like a stone.

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