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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:10:32 +0100 (BST)
From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
cc: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Max # of files with NFS? 
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On Tue, 20 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.OSF.3.96.970519193806.26304X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> "Brian N. Handy" writes:
> : The server is a DEC alpha running DU 4.0.  The client is running
> : 2.2-STABLE. 
> 
> I know of at least one PC NFS implementation for NT which does (or
> did) barf when there were more files than a MTU worth.  Maybe it is a
> similar bug...

Well we definately support more files than that in a directory.  There is
a suprising amount of code to handle it :-).

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