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. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"