From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 18:28:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6416D16A4CF for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:28:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84BC43D2F for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:28:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EB42BD75 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:28:50 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4F08851205; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:58:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:58:48 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Darcy Buskermolen Message-ID: <20040121022848.GX47639@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200401161205.53937.darcy@wavefire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kM/PxlMMHsUUNZZW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401161205.53937.darcy@wavefire.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32k directory limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:28:53 -0000 --kM/PxlMMHsUUNZZW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 16 January 2004 at 12:05:53 -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > Is there a way i can bump up the limit of 32k directories in a directory on > either 4.9 or 5.2 ? I don't think so. It's really the link count that's biting you, and it's a signed 16 bit number. FWIW, System V limits to 1000. Why do you want that many directories? UNIX directories aren't designed to be that big, whether the entries point to files or directories. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --kM/PxlMMHsUUNZZW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADePgIubykFB6QiMRAmm2AJ9PpHD5wE1b85qFfj1h7owU0JOzhACfYbUn TBtG74QxEeTCT9MN/EarZG8= =CtLY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kM/PxlMMHsUUNZZW--