Zach Waugh: The Ext3 filesystem sub-directory limit

I recently came across a problem on a site where a client could no longer upload images through their site. After digging through the logs, I found the relevant error:

Errno::EMLINK (Too many links - /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir’

This error was occurring when the system tried to…

Found this very useful as I came across this problem.

(07/09/2013) linux - ext3