[OpenAFS] number of files

Ron Croonenberg ronc@depauw.edu
Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:01:16 -0500


I know it has nothing to do with AFS, that's what I said.

I was just wondering if there was a max to the number of files in a dir 
on an AFS volume

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Ron Croonenberg <ronc@depauw.edu>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have a cluster that mounts OpenAFS volumes. That all seems to work.
>> Things is that I have an MPI app that creates quite a few (a lot
>> actually) files. After I was done and wanted to delete those files I
>> got: -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>>
>> Nothing wrong AFS wise, but made me wonder. How many files does a
>> directory on an OpenAFS volume "hold" ?
>
> This has nothing to do with AFS and everything to do with your
> bash line-length limits.  Maybe try something like:
>
>  rm -ri .
>
>> Ron
>
> -derek
>