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We are novice and learning a lot with this Linux.
We have 2.6.30 version of Linux on our system.
And we have ext2 drive (1TB) which is attached to this system.
Application which runs on this system creates a new file every minute and stores 240MB of data per minute in this file. We see that it creates 84 Files and after that it stops.
240MB * 84 = 19.2GB
Is this the limitation of the ext2 or is there something we are doing wrong ?
What distribution/version are you running? 2.6.30 is just the kernel.
Post the output of the command dumpe2fs /dev/hdxy (where hdxy is the actual device ID of your drive). When creating lots of small files the typical problem is running out of inodes. How many files already exist on the drive?
According to wikipedia the max number of files is 10^18 but it also states that the theoretical limit on the number of files in a directory is 1.3 × 10^20
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