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

From: jin guojun <jguojun_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:29:16 UTC
If that could be the case,  running following commands from the leaf to the
top may give some clue.
(since there are only 5 levels on the path)

ls -lR | wc -l

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:03 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>
>
>