Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:33:02 -0400 From: Julian Zottl <jzottl@radiantnetworks.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limit to number of files seen by ls? Message-ID: <18b1f5d40907221933j1170bf9fm903dfc60fa2b26a3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <EACC9988-E37E-4F5F-AC03-8E664E015C3C@identry.com> References: <EACC9988-E37E-4F5F-AC03-8E664E015C3C@identry.com>
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How are you using ls? I presume something along the lines of "ls -la |
more".
What does "sysctl fs.file-ma" and "sysctl kern.maxfiles" tell you?
I've seen directories with 10000+ files. The only problem I've ever had
with that many is using the rm command. In that case, you will need to use
something like find ./ -type f -exec rm {}\;
Take care,
----
Julian
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote:
> I seem to have run into an odd problem...
>
> A client has a directory with a big-ish number of jpgs... maybe 4000.
> Problem is, I can only see 2329 of them with ls, and I'm running into other
> problems, I think.
>
> Question: Is there some limit to the number of files that a directory can
> contain? Or rather, is there some number where things like ls start working
> incorrectly?
>
> -- John
>
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