[SLL] limit on number of files in a directory and hashed dir vs. flat dir file access time

Xeno Campanoli xcampanoli at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 10:22:34 PDT 2007


My apologies.  You're right.  It was total directories horizontally that
were limited
(as found with our tests) not files themselves.  So if you change your
script to:
> for i in `seq 1 33000`
> do
> 	#touch $i
	mkdir $i
> done
> 

You will see failures after 32000:

mkdir:  cannot created directory '32001':  Too many links!


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