From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: lu01@rogge.yi.org (Andreas Rogge)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum files per Directory
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:02:31 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14uhI2-0002NH-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <272800000.988750082@hades> from "Andreas Rogge" at May 01, 2001 10:48:02 PM
> cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
> At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
> more files in a directory.
>
> Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue?
Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your performance would have
been abominable too. cyrus should be using heirarchies of directories for
very large amounts of stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-01 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-01 20:48 Andreas Rogge
2001-05-01 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01 22:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 13:49 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-04 19:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 20:08 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-05 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-05 16:16 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-01 21:02 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-01 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 10:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-02 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 13:33 ` Ketil Froyn
2001-05-02 9:21 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
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