Author: John W. Baxter Date: To: Exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file
On 6/3/05 6:39 AM, "Nigel Metheringham"
<Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote:
> 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.
That sounds like a much more likely cause than my idea. And, sincere thanks
for the file system lesson!
