On 6/3/05 6:39 AM, "Nigel Metheringham"
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> 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



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