[lug] Too many files error

[Lori Reed]

You could create a hierarchy of directories based on the file name.

Or you could use the MFFS and have one big file with each digest in a fork.

http://mffs.sourceforge.net/

There's a limit of 2.1 billion forks, but surely 2.1 billion forks 
should be enough for anyone. :)

Lori

Ken Kinder wrote:
> I'm working on an application that creates lots of files. To reduce
> the number of files in one dir, I have broken the files up into
> subdirs. The files are basically md5 hex digests, and I'm taking the
> first five chars to determine a directory:
> 
> xxxxx/(file)
> 
> However, I'm running into "Too many links" as an error upon creating
> the directories. This is happening right after the 32,0001st
> directory, which seems like an awfully even number. I thought ext3
> didn't have this problem.
> 
> Thoughts? Anyone have creative solutions for this? I'm barking up the
> right tree?
> 
> -Ken