Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 09:27:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem Message-ID: <3CD2BA6D.B3661EED@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0205021023050.7150-100000@onyx> <1020412788.5512.2.camel@vbook.express.ru>
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"Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > > χ Thu, 02.05.2002, Χ 19:25, Zhihui Zhang ΞΑΠΙΣΑΜ: > > You can create as many entries as you want in a directory. > > It is true only for files. > > But original question was about subdirectories. > > Actually there are limit on number of hardlinks for file(or dirs) and > this limit about 32k > > Each subdirectory hardlinks it's '..' to parent directory so, you can't > create more then 32k subdirectories (it is true for 3.x) > but I don't know how with this problem on -STABLE and -CURRENT ? > > Anybody knows ? The limit you are complaining about are FAT/VFAT specific. All FS's have their own limits. In FFS, a directory is a file. Therefore you are limited by the number of files. THe number of files is limited by disk space and reserved space for inodes. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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