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Date:      Sat, 5 Mar 2016 23:23:16 +0200
From:      Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com>
To:        "Nagy, Attila" <bra@fsn.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs and st_nlink limit at 32767
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it seems an integer limit (32bit).. I guess easily to fix by converting to
unsigned int / 64 bit.

sami
בתאריך 5 במרץ 2016 9:54 PM,‏ "Nagy, Attila" <bra@fsn.hu> כתב:

> Hi,
>
> If I create a million hard links to a file, stat -s says it has 32767:
> $ stat -s 900402.24.t
> st_dev=1709683738 st_ino=719745 st_mode=0100644 st_nlink=32767 st_uid=1001
> st_gid=0 st_rdev=4294967295 st_size=81688 st_atime=1455881393
> st_mtime=1455881393 st_ctime=1457206643 st_birthtime=1457206536
> st_blksize=81920 st_blocks=67 st_flags=2048
>
> Is this a limitation somewhere which is hard to remove, or just an easily
> fixable "legacy" from the times, when all filesystems contained this limit?
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