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From: FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Nicole Delbecque & Paul Bijnens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mkdir has stopped working - SCO Xen
Message-ID: <91111.180924FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 21 Apr 91 18:07:24 GMT
References: <4967@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au> <285400001@adaptx1>
 <336@eskimo.celestial.com>
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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>In article <285400001@adaptx1>, neese@adaptx1.UUCP writes:
># Check the amount of files/directories in the directory you are trying to
># create one in.  If the total is more than 999, the mkdir command will fail.
># You can only have up to 1000 entries in each subdirectory.  I don't know
># whether this is a file system limit or a limit imposed by mkdir.

It is a system limit: max number of links to a file.
See /usr/include/sys/param.h, where you find something like:
   #define MAXLINK 1000
For every directory you make, you make a link to the parent directory.
--
Polleke   (Paul Bijnens)
Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be