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Re: Minix FS has limited number of directories?

To: Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>
Subject: Re: Minix FS has limited number of directories?
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 97 11:36:02 +0200
Cc: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
In-reply-to: Mario Becroft's message of Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:58:48 +0000
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Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net> writes:

|> Is this an inherent limitation of the Minix filesystem, is it a bug, or is
|> it something else? How can I avoid it?

The minix filesystem has a limit of 127 links per inode, and 125
directories (plus two links for "." and "..") just crossed that.  There is
nothing to avoid that short of moving to a different filesystem.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"

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- Minix FS has limited number of directories?
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