On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single > > directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent > > directory, but there are of course limits to the total number of files and > > directories you can have on a single filesystem based on how many inodes > > were created when the filesystem was first created. > > Maybe this sounds stupid, but... given that a file system > can hold n entries. What happens when a program tries to > create file number n + 1? > > I do ask this in order to explore if this could have been > the reason for my massive data loss and UFS file system > corruption.
I haven't tested what actually happens, but what should happen is that the attempt to create file n+1 will simply fail with some appropriate error code (see open(2) or mkdir(2) for details.) It is certainly not supposed to cause any kind of files system corruption. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
