On Saturday, May 05, 2001 03:49:20 PM +0200 Jamie Lokier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> > Is there a reason that
>> > reiserfs chose to have "large number of directories" represented by "1"
>> > and not "LINK_MAX+1"?
>>
>> find and a few others consider a link count of 1 to
Chris Mason wrote:
> > Is there a reason that
> > reiserfs chose to have "large number of directories" represented by "1"
> > and not "LINK_MAX+1"?
>
> find and a few others consider a link count of 1 to mean there is no link
> count tracking being done.
Indeed, and thank you for getting this ri
On Friday, May 04, 2001 01:15:22 PM -0600 Andreas Dilger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris writes:
>> On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 04:57:02 PM -0600 Andreas Dilger
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I see that reiserfs plays some tricks with the directory i_nlink count.
>> > If you exceed 64536 li
Chris writes:
> On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 04:57:02 PM -0600 Andreas Dilger
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I see that reiserfs plays some tricks with the directory i_nlink count.
> > If you exceed 64536 links in a directory, it reverts to "1" and no longer
> > tracks the link count.
>
> Correct.
On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 04:57:02 PM -0600 Andreas Dilger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>> Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single
>> directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation.
>
>
> I see that reiserfs plays some tricks with the direct
Ingo Oeser wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:03:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your
> > > performance would have been abominable too. cyrus should be
> > > using heirarchies of directories for very large amounts of
> > > stuff.
> Righ
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
> > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
> > more files in a directory.
> >
> > Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue?
>
> Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your performa
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:03:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your
> > performance would have been abominable too. cyrus should be
> > using heirarchies of directories for very large amounts of
> > stuff.
Right.
> But also showing, once agai
H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single
> directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation.
This is imposed by a number of issues:
- EXT2_LINK_MAX=32000 is checked for new subdirectories
- ext2 bg_used_dirs_count is a __u16
- inode->i_nlink (__
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By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
> > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
> > more files in a directory.
> >
> > Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-
> cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
> At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
> more files in a directory.
>
> Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue?
Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your performance would have
been abominable too. cyrus should
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By author:Andreas Rogge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes
> with
> cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
> At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me
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