From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 23 00:02:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D35A106566B for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCF58FC16 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 58721 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jul 2009 00:02:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 23 Jul 2009 00:02:17 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: From: John Almberg Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:01:57 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: limit to number of files seen by ls? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:02:01 -0000 I seem to have run into an odd problem... A client has a directory with a big-ish number of jpgs... maybe 4000. Problem is, I can only see 2329 of them with ls, and I'm running into other problems, I think. Question: Is there some limit to the number of files that a directory can contain? Or rather, is there some number where things like ls start working incorrectly? -- John