[OpenAFS] rsync into afs directory: File too large (27)

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 6/10/2011 3:00 PM, Thomas Kula wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:41:49PM -0400, Dan Scott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm synchronising (with a cronjob) some files from a directory on a
>> standalone server into an AFS directory on another and I receive
>> (several of) the following errors:
>>
>> rsync: mkstemp "/afs/example.com/volumename/filename.dat" failed: File=

>> too large (27)
>>
>> The files are not large at all (10s of MB) and there are around 30,000=

>> in the directory.                                              ^^^^^^^=
^
>=20
> If I had to bet, you're running into the "directory files have a finite=

> size" limit. In AFS with short filenames I think you can get ~60K files=

> in a directory, but longer filenames take up more space and that number=

> goes down as names grow in length.

And as fragmentation within the directory increases.

Tom Keiser is working on directory defragmentation as a side project.

Jeffrey Altman



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