Maximum directories into one directory

[Admin.SIF]

We currently work on a e-commerce solution which all section of the product will be place into a distinct sub-directory. We use HP-UX 11 to support all the site.

Is there a maximum limit of hao many sub-directory can be create into a simple directory? If it exist, can we change that value by updating the Kernel (in case it's too small)?

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

The maximum is 32,765 subdirectories per directory. See the following thread for an explanation, in particular, Rik Tytgat's response.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x16e1f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

--Bruce

[SBC ITRC]

Hi,

There is a patch that will let you go to 64K subdirectories. The patch for 11i is PHKL_28117.

[Helen French]

The subdirectory is limited to the LINK_MAX parameter. The default is 32767, but it might be greater than that in practical.

# man 5 limits (limits.h)
# man mkdir (for more details)