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Subject: Re: Maximum files per Directory
To: lu01@rogge.yi.org (Andreas Rogge)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:02:31 +0100 (BST)
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> 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.