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From: lfm@ttardis.UUCP (Keith Tonge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Help
Keywords: directory limits
Message-ID: <2640@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 00:09:22 GMT
Organization: TTARDIS Public Access BBS
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[I am posting this for keith tonge, a user on this system.  To reply,
please send email to cfctech!ttardis!kt6938@sharkey.cc.umich.edu  -jt]

I need to enlist the help of anyone who might be able to assist
me in a problem I'm having with the UNIX limit on the number of
sub-directories that may be contained in any one directory.

The application I'm working on creates a sub directory and a
couple of sub directories under that for each new "case".  The
case number is a seven byte numberic field.  As an example the
new case that is created has a case number of 23702.  The
directory structure would be something like:
/usr
 .  /htc
 .   .  /23702
 .   .    .   /primary
 .   .    .   /document

The problem I'm experiencing is that UNIX imposes a limit of 998
sub-directories ( plus . and .. which makes total of 1000) in any
one directory.

I'm running SCO XENIX 2.3.1 (soon to upgrade to either 2.3.2 or
SCO UNIX) and I'm wondering if there's any way of increasing this
limit, and if not I'm open to suggestions as to how a workaround
might be accomplished.

Thanks in advance

Keith...



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