From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Adam Voigt <adam@cryptocomm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File Limit in Kernel?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:01:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021112110149.A9492@borg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037115535.1439.5.camel@beowulf.cryptocomm.com>; from adam@cryptocomm.com on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:55AM -0500
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:55AM -0500, Adam Voigt wrote:
> I have a directory with 39,000 files in it, and I'm trying to use the cp
> command to copy them into another directory,
> [...]
> "argument list too long"
No, it is not a kernel limit, it is a limit to your shell (bash, for
example). Look at xargs to get around it.
A related limit is that the popular ext2 and 3 file systems get
inefficient when directories have so many files. The work-around for
that is to have your files either hashed or organized across a
collection of directories.
-kb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-12 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-12 15:38 File Limit in Kernel? Adam Voigt
2002-11-12 15:57 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-11-13 9:51 ` Jan Hudec
2002-11-13 10:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-12 16:01 ` Kent Borg [this message]
2002-11-12 16:26 ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-12 16:06 ` Chris Friesen
2002-11-12 16:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-12 16:12 ` Matt Reppert
2002-11-12 16:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-12 23:23 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <1037115535.1439.5.camel@beowulf.cryptocomm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-12 15:53 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-12 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-19 15:14 ` Shalon Wood
2002-11-19 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-12 21:55 ` Jamie Lokier
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