From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 08:32:55 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 8120C16A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.dbitech.ca (radius.wavefire.com [64.141.13.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4666943D31 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darcy@wavefire.com) Received: (qmail 13757 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2004 17:15:11 -0000 Received: from dbitech.wavefire.com (HELO 64.141.15.253) (darcy@64.141.15.253) by radius.wavefire.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 17:15:11 -0000 From: Darcy Buskermolen Organization: Wavefire Technologies Corp. To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:32:51 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401161205.53937.darcy@wavefire.com> <20040121022848.GX47639@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040121022848.GX47639@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401210832.52068.darcy@wavefire.com> 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 16:32:55 -0000 Problem is some brain dead software (to which I don't have source) creating these dirs all under one dir and not nesting them in a way to ensure that the 32k number isn't broken. On January 20, 2004 06:28 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com