From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 9:29:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dirty.research.bell-labs.com (dirty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9D5137B408 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:29:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rajeeva@research.bell-labs.com) Received: from nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.8.38]) by dirty; Mon Aug 27 12:28:44 EDT 2001 Received: from research.bell-labs.com (dhcp9164.cs.bell-labs.com [135.104.9.164]) by nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20242783 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:28:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B8A752D.7050607@research.bell-labs.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:28:29 -0400 From: Rajeev Agrawala User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: number of subdirs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a restriction on number of subdirs in a dir. I could not create more than 32767 subdirs in BSD release 4.3. I guess the problem was not number of dir entries but number of hardlinks, because each subdir creates a hard link (..) to the parent dir. Thanks, rajeev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message