Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:43:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Dreamtime.net Inc." <clients@dreamtime.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Symbolic Links Message-ID: <3BA8228B.E25AA03F@elischer.org> References: <JEELLDECNKBMDHPNMECKKEIPDLAA.clients@dreamtime.net>
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"Dreamtime.net Inc." wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the limit of how many symbolic links can be in one
> directory? For one of our systems, we put a symbolic link in a directory per
> each user. We have an install coming that will be fore one million users. So
> we need a symbolic link for each one. But wondering what the the max limit
> for symbolic links is for one directory.
you can do this until you run out of inodes.
but you really don't want to...
use a hshing method to breake them into smaller groups
e.g. /o/b/obiwan
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Stephen
>
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