i'm running into failures creating directories on the filesystem:
2005-11-04 11:38:44,479 ERROR [DavResourceImpl] Error while executing import chain: javax.jcr.RepositoryException: /smooney/Work: unable to update item.: failed to store property state: 85a2772b-f2a7-4720-bb6c-b76a995b1479/{http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0}mixinTypes: failed to create folder data/repository/workspaces/homedir/data/85a2/772b/f2a74720bb6cb76a995b1479: failed to store property state: 85a2772b-f2a7-4720-bb6c-b76a995b1479/{http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0} mixinTypes: failed to create folder data/repository/workspaces/homedir/data/85a2/772b/f2a74720bb6cb76a995b1479
the failing method is LocalFileSystem.createFolder, specifically the f.mkdirs() call on line 205.
when i try to mkdir data/repository/workspaces/homedir/data/85a2 by hand, i get 'mkdir: cannot create directory `85a2': Too many links'.
the system is Linux halua 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux. i am informed that it has a limit of 32k files and directories within a directory. it turns out that there are 31998 dirs in data/repository/workspaces/homedir/data, so that explains the error.
what's the right solution to the problem? one suggestion has been to move to a 2-character hashing scheme, which would guarantee fewer than 32k directories at each level. is this workable? is there a better solution?
