mkdir has stopped working - SCO Xen

[Nicole Delbecque & Paul Bijnens]

>In article <285400001 at adaptx1>, neese at adaptx1.UUCP writes:
># Check the amount of files/directories in the directory you are trying to
># create one in.  If the total is more than 999, the mkdir command will fail.
># You can only have up to 1000 entries in each subdirectory.  I don't know
># whether this is a file system limit or a limit imposed by mkdir.

It is a system limit: max number of links to a file.
See /usr/include/sys/param.h, where you find something like:
   #define MAXLINK 1000
For every directory you make, you make a link to the parent directory.
--
Polleke   (Paul Bijnens)
Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
FFAAC09 at cc1.kuleuven.ac.be