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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:56:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Christopher Palmer <cpalmer@jig.ordway.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Too many links
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904121454470.22405-100000@jig.ordway.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990412121738.I2142@lemis.com>

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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Seriously, it's a performance issue.  The current limit is in
> /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h:
> 
> #define	LINK_MAX		32767	/* max file link count */
> 
> Theoretically you could just increase this value and 'make world', but
> you might run into int overflow problems.  I certainly think that
> there are better alternatives to this issue than adding yet more
> directories to one which is too full already.

Yikes! Is this a filesystem-wide limit (not more than 32767 files/dirs 
total) or a directory-specific limitation (not more than 32767 files/dirs
per dir)?

Basically, is this a limit on inodes?

Christopher Palmer
Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre
cpalmer@jig.ordway.org



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