[GRASS-user] Maximum number of GRASS files within a mapset?

[Paul Kelly]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Shaun Walbridge wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I seem to be running into a GRASS limitation relating to the maximum number 
> of rasters available within a single mapset location, which appears to be 
> exactly 32000.  Attempting to create additional rasters generates the 
> message:
>
> ERROR: can't make mapset element cell_misc/test00
>
> which seems to be coming from lib/gis/mapset_msc.c:
>  if (access (path, 0) != 0)
>  G_fatal_error (_("can't make mapset element %s (%s)"), p_element, path);
>
> Is there any way of circumventing this limitation, or is it a hardcoded C 
> limitation?

I fear it may be a Unix limitation - the maximum number of files in one 
directory. Maybe reading documentation to see if there was anyway to 
increase this would be the best course of action.

Paul