[Dovecot] Too many links
Simon Waters
simonw at zynet.net
Wed Mar 29 12:48:40 EEST 2006
On Wednesday 29 Mar 2006 10:22, Feraudet Cyril wrote:
>
> During the migration (simple but very long process) I get a "Too many
> links" error
> from dovecot.
> Have you an idea ?
I think this is a limit on the Linux VFS structures. I don't know how to tune
it, or if it is tunable upwards in a simple fashion.
The problem is when you have more than 31998 in an ext2 file system.
http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/2001-December/038824.html
Since there are underlying structures with similar limits, it will likely
affect many file systems, although you may get closed to 32768 before it
fails.
Probably best to use a hierarchical naming strategy to avoid so many
directories at the same level in the
tree; /var/spool/mail/domain/us/er/username
Hans Reiser has commented the underlying limits make his file system look bad,
although he didn't put it that brutally.
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