Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:21:26 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, no-spam@people.net.au Subject: Re: UFS2 limits Message-ID: <20081109112126.GA46364@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20081109104711.e03722c4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <50261.1226194851@people.net.au> <20081109024046.GB27423@icarus.home.lan> <20081109093521.GA73108@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20081109104711.e03722c4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>= wrote: > > Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a sin= gle > > directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent > > directory, but there are of course limits to the total number of files = and > > directories you can have on a single filesystem based on how many inodes > > were created when the filesystem was first created. >=20 > Maybe this sounds stupid, but... given that a file system > can hold n entries. What happens when a program tries to > create file number n + 1? The call to the open(2) system call will fail for one of the reasons given in the manual page. =20 > I do ask this in order to explore if this could have been > the reason for my massive data loss and UFS file system > corruption. My first point of inquiry in such a case would be if the hardware is OK. If you're using (P|S)ATA|SCSI-3 devices, install smartmontools from ports and test the disk with smartctl(8). Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkWx7YACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWPVwCff5nj+VaBO6me7j5OyfD6pBTO oXMAn3uyUW8o4mWAMUF26IPVubVGxOog =yH19 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--
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