According to Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > FWIW I found this limit several years back on transarc 3.6 servers. If I > recall correctly, it's 64K files if filenames are < 32 characters and half > that if filenames are over 32 characters. (this is from memory--I have it > documented somewhere in my hundreds of megs of email...) > > The way I found the problem is that a student was trying to create 64K+1 > files in a directory and it crashed the fileserver process on the server > housing that volume! I opened a trouble-ticket with transarc and they > eventually fixed the bug causing the fileserver crash, but when I asked for > a fix to allow > 64K files/directory, I got ... well, not quite laughed at, > but you get the idea. > > I don't know if the crash-fix made it into the OpenAFS code or not...
I have 2300+ files in one mounted directory in AFS that can crash OpenAFS 1.2.8 on FreeBSD 4.8-REL with regularity should I forget and issue an ls(1) command in that directory. I have done some limited experimentation (not too much, since it forces a reboot!) which seems to indicate the "cut point" is closer to 1000 than 2000. For the record, I have numerous files that have names >> 32 characters. If I knew how and what to report and where, I would. :-) I am but a lowly user who lurks here. This thread is the first I've seen that relates to this irritating (for me) problem... Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Merit Network Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
