Re: [xml-dev] Handling very large instance docs

["Alex Brown" <alex@xmlopen.org>]

> 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.