[OpenAFS] help! volume corruption caused by lots of files

[steve rader]

 > From: steve rader
 > I have an end user who running a script under linux (2.2 or 2.4) that
 > creates directories with perhaps as many as 100,000 files in them.

"just don't do that"

My thanks go out to Rubino <kb44 @ rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> for
pointing out the max-files-per-dir info for AFS!  [1]

I have identified a directory with exactly 32,000 files...
31,998 of them are 20 characters in length.  Crazy physicists.

steve 
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

 [1] http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Support/afs/afsqa/general.html