Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:02:44 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mkdir error message -- what does this mean? Message-ID: <20220930200244.31d71c489812fd26c0d39769@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFbbPuhXUqwcq%2BKsdD=q6C-w6JcypZLMKJGb9vUGp2k8r=G3=Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <e293b9c3b1c168ad1eee3a65510b1aa9@nyclocal.net> <CAGBxaXnc_ornipZxX=NgoDagCjcU80vMXZ1EjZr8j-8RrcdJnw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPuhXUqwcq%2BKsdD=q6C-w6JcypZLMKJGb9vUGp2k8r=G3=Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:48:09 -0400 Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote: > 31 EMLINK Too many links. Maximum allowable hard links to a single > file has been exceeded (limit of 32767 hard links per file). > > I betcha the parent directory has at least this many number of objects in > it. DIRHASH has a lot to answer for, time was we'd jump through hoops when writing applications to avoid having huge numbers of files in a directory, now nobody notices any problems until they hit the limit. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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