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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:36:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Prakash Shetty <root@varelinux.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Urgent -  too many links
Message-ID:  <20010214083615.E60977@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A892160.3000108@varelinux.org>; from root@varelinux.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:28:24PM %2B0530
References:  <3A892160.3000108@varelinux.org>

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On Tuesday, 13 February 2001 at 17:28:24 +0530, Prakash Shetty wrote:
> Hi
>         I am facing a problem...in a freebsd server.....i cannot
> create directories above a certain limit.....wht should i do..tried
> many things increasing the inode level etc......it gives a error
> "too many links"

The maximum number of links allowed is 32767.  If you have this many
subdirectories in a single directory (or even this many entries),
you're doing something wrong.  You should rearrange your directory
structure.  Symlinks are not the answer: the performance would be
terrible.

Greg
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