Re: mkdir error message -- what does this mean?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:48:09 -0400
Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:

>      31 EMLINK Too many links. Maximum allowable hard links to a single
> file has been exceeded (limit of 32767 hard links per file).
> 
> I betcha the parent directory has at least this many number of objects in
> it.

	DIRHASH has a lot to answer for, time was we'd jump through hoops
when writing applications to avoid having huge numbers of files in a
directory, now nobody notices any problems until they hit the limit.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>