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From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of subdirectories
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:16:21 +0400
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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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
> >> 
> >> 
> >>    
> >>
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> >
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