From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 09:03:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85460106564A for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FA08FC08 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kw.news4all.se (c80-217-64-49.bredband.comhem.se [80.217.64.49]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q0G92rZp011409; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:02:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Message-ID: <4F13E7B4.9000807@bananmonarki.se> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:02:44 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4F113290.1060706@bananmonarki.se> <20120114092236.0c139ccd.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F114710.8030509@bananmonarki.se> <20120114103401.1bbc5c0f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120114103401.1bbc5c0f.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: disk problem(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:03:02 -0000 2012-01-14 10:34, Polytropon skrev: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:12:48 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: >>> How many subdirectories are there? >> >> ls | wc -l >> 32765 > > Seems that you have reached LINK_MAX of 32767 > (according to /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h). > The difference of 2, I assume, is one for . > and one for .. "hidden" entries. > > > >>> Could you, for example, try removing one and then >>> creating a new one (assumption: success), followed >>> by another try to create one (assumption: fail)? >> >> >> That is a nono >> >> I'll have to pop in another disk. > > As the voice from the GPS navigation system tends > to say: "You have reached your destination." :-) This time it didn't say that, it said You have reached your target destination of 32767. > Re-arranging the content of the disk could be an > option, It's not an option, the database will get confused and not be able to retrive the articles. > but if you're using that disk as some kind > of WORM medium (e. g. backup disk), I understand > the nono. It's not a backupdisk. And it seems like all the articles is gone now. Oh well some other storage strategy is needed