slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman) (04/21/91)
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. This limit is a consequence of the limit on the number of links a file may have, which is 1000 (at least it is on the systems I've seen). As every directory contains a link to itself and its parent, you can't have more than 998 (sub)directories in any single directory. While we're on the subject, why is/was this limit imposed? To make sure some old version fsck / ncheck didn't barf? Paul.