walter@watserv1.waterloo.edu (w mccutchan -- computing services) (10/16/90)
I have two queries for a colleague who is not yet on the Internet. He is converting an application on a Bull (300?) machine and the application (a PICK emulator) blows up with the message mkdir: cannot create directory. too many links. when he performs a conversion operation on a large "file" (the "file" is actually a directory and its children), involving a thick but shallow nest of directories about four levels deep. The directory which it seems to be choking on is 34,302 bytes in size with a link count of 995 (previously it bombed on the same file with a link count of 455 but this changed when he increased ULIMIT to the maximum). Is there some magic about the size of this directory, the number of entries in it or the number of links? Where can I find information like this for future reference? Second: Looking at the application, it seems that we *might* be able to get around this problem by implementing long names on one file system. Alas, neither manuals nor technical support seem able to tell us how to do this on a Bull box. Can anyone out there lend a hand? thanks, ..walter
tba@pws.bull.com (Todd Aubin) (10/25/90)
walter@watserv1.waterloo.edu (w mccutchan -- computing services) writes: >I have two queries for a colleague who is not yet on the Internet. >He is converting an application on a Bull (300?) machine and the >application (a PICK emulator) blows up with the message >system. Alas, neither manuals nor technical support seem able to tell >us how to do this on a Bull box. Can anyone out there lend a hand? >thanks, >..walter Please send e-mail to me: tba@pws.bull.com I have experience with the Bull DPX-2/3xx line, as well as Universe/Ult-ix, Pick, etc. I'll do what I can to help. I am *very* curious as to who you've talked to at Bull locally, and maybe can we can avoid this in the future. I have not yet met an single Bull Unix support person who doesn't like to talk about his DPX-2, so I will try to get that person the right materials if that is what is lacking. KNOW BULL -- Todd B. Aubin uunet!hbiso!tba or tba@pws.bull.com Bull Information Systems Inc. Technology Park, Billerica, MA 01821 (ISO Unix Marketing Support)