From owner-freebsd-fs Fri May 3 9:28: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008F837B405 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 09:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0248.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.248] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 173fuT-000373-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 09:27:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD2BA6D.B3661EED@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 09:27:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem References: <1020412788.5512.2.camel@vbook.express.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" wrote: > = > =F7 Thu, 02.05.2002, =D7 19:25, Zhihui Zhang =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC: > > 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