Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Maximum files per Directory | Date | Tue, 1 May 2001 22:02:31 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be > more files in a directory. > > Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue?
Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your performance would have been abominable too. cyrus should be using heirarchies of directories for very large amounts of stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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