[OpenAFS] cp: cannot create regular file....File too larg

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:43:28 -0400


On Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:30:18 PM +0900 
"=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCS1w0ViEhN3IwbE86GyhC?=" <homma@spitfire.jp> wrote:

> There should are not limitation in the volume but the limitation is to
> be to the number of the files which can be stored in one directory?

That's correct; the number of entries in a single directory is limited to 
at most just under 64K.  Longer filenames take up more space, so you get 
fewer files.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA