Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:49:30 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Large numbers of files. |
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Hi,
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:56:57 -0400 (EDT), "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:
> You can make a directory that is too large to be read with the usual > tools. If you run this program, I'd suggest that you mount a "scrap" > disk on /tmp, because you might have to use mke2fs to fix the mess.
The program you include uses 1k of disk space for the data and one inode for every file it creates. It's pretty much guaranteed to run out of inodes before it runs out of anything else. However, I've used your code and modified versions of it to try to reproduce the problem, and everything works just fine for me when running out of either inodes or blocks on the disk.
Is there anything special you are doing? I can't see how this can be happening, I can't reproduce it and I've never seen it reported before.
--Stephen
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