On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:47 -0700, John W. Baxter wrote:
> Out of inodes? (If using a filesystem which suffers from that.) You didn't
> say what was in the 30,000 directories.
Not exactly. Some (most?), but certainly not all, Unix filesystems have
a directory link count which is (on many) a 16 bit quantity. A
directory can not have more links than will fit into the link count, and
each subdirectory is linked to the parent.
Nigel.
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