From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 12:59: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jig.ordway.org (jig.ordway.org [209.98.93.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D55E15226 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Received: from localhost (cpalmer@localhost) by jig.ordway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03606; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:56:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:56:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Palmer To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Randy A. Katz" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many links In-Reply-To: <19990412121738.I2142@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message