Maximum number of subdirectories

[Scheller Jim]

Hi there -

Our application is creating a large number of subdirectories in which data is
being archived.

We find that the call to create a new directory fails after 32,767 sub
directories have been created in a single directory.

Is there some way to tune this to allow for a larger number of subdirectories
to be created?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

[Ken Burke_2]

Each subdirectory has its .. linked to the directory
that you are in. The number of links a file/directory
can have is given in /usr/include/sys/inode.h

short ic_nlink; /*2: number of links to file*/

The max value of a variable of type short is 32767.
There is no way to change this.

With such large numbers of file/directories in one
directory your performance is going to suffer.

[Scheller Jim]

Drat... Time to start changing a lot of source code, I suppose. Thanks for your
help.