Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File limit in ext2? [Possibly OT] | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 29 Mar 2000 23:10:44 +0200 |
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Tim Walberg <tewalberg@mediaone.net> writes: > Of course, you might still be subject to running out of i-nodes, > depending on how the fs was created, but outside of that, directories > grow dynamically as files are added. (I suspect there's a limit on > how large the directory structure can get, too, but it's pretty large.)
There is a limit of 65534 sub directories because st_nlink is 16bit.
-Andi
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