Out of sync - too many links

[hoja]

Hi,

I inherited a syncthing installation that is out of sync (total of 5,549,305 files, 154,333 directories, ~1.86 TiB). Out of Sync Items: 96,568 items, ~33.4 GiB

In the failed items I see: too many links

I see the following entries in the log: Puller (folder “sar” (8gcwr-heote), item “ko/H.R/26146/TASK_b2fe2e4a-0f69-4f87-9e49-7aa567896/VOLR/DSli259.dkm”): resurrecting parent dir: mkdir /mnt/b/syncthing/sar/ko/H.R/26146: too many links

What do you think could be the solution?

Thanks!

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

The “Too many links” error comes from the filesystem. It means that the filesystem does not permit the creation of a new directory in the specific location because the directory has the maximum number of subdirectories allowed . It might be possible to change this limitation at the filesystem level.

(https://www.google.com/search?q=mkdir+too+many+links)

[hoja]

Thank you, you are right! The remote system has a UFS file system and we have reached the maximum number of subdirectories (we have 32765 subdir). I need to replace the file system…