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Date:      Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:02:44 +0100
From:      Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: disk problem(s)
Message-ID:  <4F13E7B4.9000807@bananmonarki.se>
In-Reply-To: <20120114103401.1bbc5c0f.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <4F113290.1060706@bananmonarki.se> <20120114092236.0c139ccd.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F114710.8030509@bananmonarki.se> <20120114103401.1bbc5c0f.freebsd@edvax.de>

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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



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