<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I believe there is a limit ot the number of directory entries in the
> 'root' of the filesystem; iirc it's about 32K or so under linux. In
Here's the full story, as I understand it:
The normal limit (for unix filesystems) is the max value for links in
an inode: every directory entry using a link in the parent.
In UFS, ic_nlink is a short (16 bits), leading to a max 32765 (+2
entries for the directory itself and its parent) subdirectories in any
directory. XFS has a value called bs_nlink of type nlink_t
(__uint32_t, 32 bits on the 32 bit systems.)
(I think it's DOS FAT which has a particular limit of entries in the
root of the filesystem)
James.
