Hello!
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:52:04AM +0100, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote:
> this is not true. The maximum number of links in reiserfs 3.5 and 3.6 is
> 64535 (not 65535!). With ext2, it's exactly 32000. I wrote a program
> which uses heavly hard links, and had problems with this limit.
> Does anybody know, why these strange limits exist?
For reiserfs these limits are imposed by Linux type of nlink_t.
Which is unsigned short on all arches besides sparc (where it short int),
so you can have 65535 links on every arch except sparc, and 32767 links on
sparc.
Bye,
Oleg
