On 6/3/05 6:39 AM, "Nigel Metheringham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:47 -0700, John W. Baxter wrote: >> Out of inodes? (If using a filesystem which suffers from that.) You didn't >> say what was in the 30,000 directories. > > Not exactly. Some (most?), but certainly not all, Unix filesystems have > a directory link count which is (on many) a 16 bit quantity. A > directory can not have more links than will fit into the link count, and > each subdirectory is linked to the parent. That sounds like a much more likely cause than my idea. And, sincere thanks for the file system lesson! --John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
