02-23-2008
Mirusnet, you're right, there's no normal way to change this param on UFS.
From the
Sun manual -
Quote:
The maximum number of subdirectories per directory in a UFS file system is 32,767. This limit is predefined and cannot be changed.
Although this is easily avoided by changing your approach to this issue; Unix file systems are not optimised for large numbers of files in directories (although this can be tweaked using tunefs), you will get much better performance by having a deeper structure rather than a flat one. Implement an index layer on top of your existing flat structure, go for a B+ tree type approach.
Hope this helps,
-c
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gnomevfs-mkdir
gnomevfs-mkdir(1) User Commands gnomevfs-mkdir(1)
NAME
gnomevfs-mkdir - make a new directory at a VFS location
SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-mkdir URI
DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-mkdir makes a new directory at a URI location that supports the creation of new directories.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URI Specifies the location of the new directory in standard URI format.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Making a New Directory in the Home Directory
example% gnomevfs-mkdir file:///home/user/newdir
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnomevfs-mkdir Executable to make a new directory at a VFS location
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1)
NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.
SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-mkdir(1)