Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool fi…

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: John W. Baxter
CC: Exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file
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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