> >hi guys, i'd really appreciate some feed back on this symbolic > >link issue. i did experience that my system has a limit on the > >number of references, but the limit is large enough to be > >inconsequential > > > > > > /TMP/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/0/1/2 > > > > > looks like you are doing something wrong. even if the directories > have only one of 2 names (eg 0 and 1) that leads to 2^42 > > 4,398,046,511,104 directory locations for files, my disks don't have > that many bytes.
sorry, i'm not following you here. i'm not sure what you mean by "wrong". for example, i am using my hack on a daily basis and have not notice any "ill effects". and the directory containing the 36 a-z0-9 subdirs, each containing 36 symbolic links and one file, well, that takes up 148k according to df and du. i suppose i ought to clarify that i never put anything else in there. its purpose is just to allow me to specify arbitray paths that will test true with -e so even though it is working fine for me, i am worried that you are right -- that i am doing something "wrong". I just don't know what that would be. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
