Hello On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 02:09 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > > >Hello > > > >On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 23:25 +0800, Sinang, Danny wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>Am a newbie to ReisferFS / Reiser4. > >> > >>I've been searching the archives and Google for a definite answer as > >>to what the maximum number of subdirectories under a directory is. A > >>Dec, 2003 article ( http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=510028 ) > >>says it's 64,536. Is this still true ? > >> > >> > >> > >no, that was for old format of reiserfs. > > > > > > > >>If not, then what is the current limit for both ReiserFS and Reiser4 ? > >> > >> > > > >current limit for both is 2^32. > > > > > and that limit is not of our making, but is rather due to layers above us. >
both in-core inode of linux and reiser4 default disk format store number of file links in 32 bits. > > > > > >> > >>Regards, > >>Danny > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >
