From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 14: 6:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1A737B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:06:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2BD6D6ACC7; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:36:16 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:36:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Prakash Shetty Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent - too many links Message-ID: <20010214083615.E60977@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3A892160.3000108@varelinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A892160.3000108@varelinux.org>; from root@varelinux.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:28:24PM +0530 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 13 February 2001 at 17:28:24 +0530, Prakash Shetty wrote: > Hi > I am facing a problem...in a freebsd server.....i cannot > create directories above a certain limit.....wht should i do..tried > many things increasing the inode level etc......it gives a error > "too many links" The maximum number of links allowed is 32767. If you have this many subdirectories in a single directory (or even this many entries), you're doing something wrong. You should rearrange your directory structure. Symlinks are not the answer: the performance would be terrible. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message