Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:58:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max # of Files in a Directory? Message-ID: <20040902225851.GB46994@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040902224043.GA30143@procyon.nekulturny.org> References: <20040902224043.GA30143@procyon.nekulturny.org>
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In the last episode (Sep 02), Danny MacMillan said: > I googled for this but I couldn't find an answer. > > What is the largest number of files that can exist in a single > directory in FreeBSD? I ask because I'm using courier-imap using a > Maildir mailbox and I started seeing all kinds of errors when trying > to copy more than 16383 messages into one of my folders there. I'm > retrieving mail from a There's a limit of 16384 subdirectories in a single directory (due to the fact that each subdir has a .. file that's linked to the parent), but there's no real limit on the number of file. Try truss'ing the imap process and see exactly what syscalls are failing. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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