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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Huge directories in XENIX
Summary: subdirectory limit
Message-ID: <938@applix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 22:51:04 GMT
References: <118947@neabbs.UUCP>
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <118947@neabbs.UUCP>, richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) writes:
> " Huge directory < /bbs/files/ibm >--call administrator "
> Is it written somewhere: Thou shalt not have a directory with over 2K entries?

Not that I know of, but thou shalt not have a directory with more than
1000 subdirectories - that is the maximum number of links a directory
can have in System V - attempting to create the 1001st directory link
will get you the EMLINK error. Hopefully this will be extended in 
System V.4.

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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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