(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
I had problems before, but I now think it was the same one. It would be nice if we packed the directories more efficiently, and allowed them to grow beyond 256KB. But a lot of the cruft in this area is legacy to avoid breaking backwards compatibility with the way servers have been storing their directory information in RVM. Well, that's unfortunate. I wonder how hard it would be to make this fail more gracefully, e.g. with ENOSPC instead of crashing. It might be worth having a server format change to remove the arbitrary limit [ducking!] (even though total RVM etc. is bounded, 4000 files in a directory doesn't seem all that wierd...).Received on 2001-05-16 19:47:06