From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>,
Linux kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maximum files per Directory
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:49:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <145290000.988984174@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105012257.QAA27361@lynx.turbolabs.com>
On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 04:57:02 PM -0600 Andreas Dilger
<adilger@turbolinux.com> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>> Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single
>> directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation.
>
>
> I see that reiserfs plays some tricks with the directory i_nlink count.
> If you exceed 64536 links in a directory, it reverts to "1" and no longer
> tracks the link count.
Correct. The link count isn't used at all when deciding if the directory
is empty (we use the size instead), so we can just lie to VFS if someone
tries to make tons of subdirs.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-04 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-01 20:48 Maximum files per Directory Andreas Rogge
2001-05-01 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01 22:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 13:49 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-05-04 19:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 20:08 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-05 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-05 16:16 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-01 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 10:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-02 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 13:33 ` Ketil Froyn
2001-05-02 9:21 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
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