[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: cookbook upload: HTTP 500: Too many links

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, AJ Christensen wrote:

> You can probably smash the sandboxes directory and re-upload all of
> the cookbooks, do backups or whatever.
> 
> What are all the files? some bad symlinking? you might actually have
> to look at them, not just count them :)


i find nothing but directories under /var/cache/chef/sandboxes/; there
are no symlinks. with ext3 on this fs, i've hit the max number of
subdirectories in one directory: 32000.

i'll smash away and re-upload.

thanks for helping me find wtf was goin' on

k

> On 8 February 2012 19:33,  
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, AJ Christensen wrote:
> >
> >> No, I meant the directories such as:
> >>
> >> /var/cache/chef/sandboxes/26f2b236b39b403ca272034f5fa95599
> >
> > ahh. well...
> >
> > getting no such file or dir for the paths mentioned in the errors below.
> > but:
> >
> > DR chef server having the problem:
> > find /var/cache/chef/sandboxes -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l
> > 31999
> >
> > prod chef server that's thankfully not having problem:
> > find /var/cache/chef/sandboxes -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l
> > 1162
> >
> > yeah that's a lotta dirs in that dir.
> >
> > how'd that happen? i wonder what dirs therein i can prune, how to
> > prevent it from happening again. or if i'll need to take a heavy hammer
> > and wipe and recreate this DR chef server.