apache problem

I found out that apache allows you to import 32,000 folders only, after that it cannot handle it, is there a way around this or a fix. The way my site works, for each user it creates them 1 folder for their photos, 1 for their profile and 1 for their music, but once I hit 31999 users, apache stops other folders to be created. anything around this problem.

Thanks

 

are you sure this is an apache problem? not a PHP problem? curious

 

I'm confused by the whole "import folders" terminology. Can you be more explicit with respect to exactly what you're trying to do? You could be running into resource limitations any number of places, but without understanding your application better it's really hard to speculate on what and where.

 

on linux the file system is ext3 and ext3 allows only 32000 folders and after that it will not allow any more folders. hope this helps

 

Then you need to start splitting them up into subfolders so you don't have to use 32000 folders in one place.

aa/aaron
aa/aa_meetings

ab/abygale
ab/absent

ac/acoustic
ac/accept_it

...

ax/axe
ax/ax2007

ay/aye_matey
ay/ayte

az/azz
az/azzhol