On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:45:20 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Mar 21 06:15:01 UTC 2010 > r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Whenever a program tries to make a directory on this slice it > gets this error
It's a partition, not a slice. Partitions carry file systems, slices carry partitions. :-) > mkdir: spool/text/test: Too many links So the problem seems to be related to directories, not to "any files" (inodes) per se. > This is the slice > > /dev/ad4s4d 202G 37G 149G 20% /news/spool/text The partition; ad4s4 would be the slice. :-) > One can create a file without problems just not directories. > > Checked sysctl but don't know what to look for. A boot in the right end > would be helpful. I would suggest to find out the reason, therefore a short search though the src/ subtree reveals that this message provided by mkdir is: #if defined (EMLINK) ENTRY(EMLINK, "EMLINK", "Too many links"), #endif As the mkdir program uses the mkdir() call, we find "man 2 mkdir" with the error description for EMLINK: The new directory cannot be created because the parent directory contains too many subdirectories. How many subdirectories are there? Could you, for example, try removing one and then creating a new one (assumption: success), followed by another try to create one (assumption: fail)? Detail: The mkdir() function can be found (for UFS2) in the file /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_vnops.c at line 1111 (sources of 8.2-STABLE i386 here). If you examine what mkdir() does, you'll see that the "too many links" is true when LINK_MAX is exceeded. Per /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h we can determine that #define EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000 is defined. Can you check if 32000 is the amount of directories created? -- Polytropon 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 "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"