Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-27 Thread Christopher Judd
On Monday 26 April 2010 09:32:55 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > John Hasler put forth on 4/26/2010 7:07 AM: > > Fortunately, they did not decide to label disk drives "drawers". > > Heh, IBM calls their server drive trays "drawers", and calls their CPU > cards "books". > The Amiga workbench uses drawer

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/26/2010 08:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: John Hasler put forth on 4/26/2010 7:07 AM: Fortunately, they did not decide to label disk drives "drawers". Heh, IBM calls their server drive trays "drawers", and calls their CPU cards "books". Motherboards are mainboards and files are library

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 4/26/2010 7:07 AM: > Fortunately, they did not decide to label disk drives "drawers". Heh, IBM calls their server drive trays "drawers", and calls their CPU cards "books". -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-26 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > I worked on a personal project last year in which I ran into the 32k > limit and solved the problem by imposing a simple structure on my > directory names. It's easy if you are planning ahead. This guy is stuck with an application (presumably closed-source) that already re

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100425_161747, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize > > that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. > > I wrote: > > Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. > > Ron Johnson w

Re: 32000 directories

2010-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize > that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. I wrote: > Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. Ron Johnson writes: > That scenario can (probably) be worked around

Re: 32000 directories

2010-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/25/2010 02:32 PM, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. That scenario can (probably) be wor

Re: 32000 directories

2010-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize > that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

32000 directories (was Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit ...)

2010-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/25/2010 10:04 AM, Siju George wrote: [snip] The folder limit was reached some time back. As a temporary solution some directories were removed . They will be fitting new drives tomorrow so I guess i will format them to XFS and use that. since ext4 also has a limit ans jfs also has a limi