rsync failed: Too many links

[Kent Miller]

Dear Chris,
	Your suggestion was fruitful.

$ mkdir ~/briefcase/1205275
mkdir: cannot create directory `1205275': Too many links

Therefore, the limitation appears to be on the side of the ext3 file
system, and unrelated to rsync.

Of course, this means that I am really stuck.  In a push to standardize, I
deployed debian sarge throughout my entire network.  All partitions are
either ext3 or swap.

Sincerely Yours,
Kent

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 06:38:44AM -0400, Kent Miller wrote:
> > Dear Sir or Madam,
> > 	Has anyone seen a error message like the following?
> > 
> > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/kmiller/briefcase/1205275" failed: Too
> > many links (31)
> > rsync: stat "/home/kmiller/briefcase/1205275" failed: No such file or
> > directory (2)
> > 
> > 	As far as I can tell, I am not using any symlinks or hardlinks.  
> > Please find below a reasonably complete bug report.  Please let me know
> > what I should do.
> 
> On more thing:  to exonerate rsync, try:
> 
> $ mkdir ~/briefcase/1205275 
> 
> on host B.
> 
> I suspect that you'll see the same failure.
> 
> -chris
> 
>