On 04/25/2010 10:04 AM, Siju George wrote: [snip]
The folder limit was reached some time back. As a temporary solution some directories were removed . They will be fitting new drives tomorrow so I guess i will format them to XFS and use that. since ext4 also has a limit ans jfs also has a limit of 64000 I guess I will use XFS which allows 2^32 directories under a directory.
Flat directory structures became obsolete 30 years ago.So, before migrating to xfs *just because it supports 64000 folders*, ask yourself and the users, "Why the heck do we have 32000 sub-directories in the first place???"
You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure.
-- Dissent is patriotic, remember?