Re: mkdir error message -- what does this mean?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 3:03 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:48:09 -0400
> Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >      31 EMLINK Too many links. Maximum allowable hard links to a single
> > file has been exceeded (limit of 32767 hard links per file).
> >
> > I betcha the parent directory has at least this many number of objects in
> > it.
>
>         DIRHASH has a lot to answer for, time was we'd jump through hoops
> when writing applications to avoid having huge numbers of files in a
> directory, now nobody notices any problems until they hit the limit.
>
> --
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
>
>
You're bringing back memories Steve ... stop .... oh god please stop!!  ;)

You aren't wrong in the least and are spot on.  I forget where the
threshold was but really, for me, anything over something like 6000 objects
was completely intolerable.
I mean, for those youngin's who might read this in the future ... 6000
objects on 10k or even 15k spinning rust takes a bloody long time!

Thanks,
Paul Procacci
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