Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 2009 12:13:51 -0700 | Subject | [PATCH] Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768. | From | Michael Shields <> |
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ext2.txt says that dirs can have 32,768 subdirs, but the actual value of EXT2_LINK_MAX is 32000. ext3 is the same, but the doc does not mention it. One of ext4's features is to "fix 32000 subdirectory limit".
--- linux-2.6.29.3/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt.orig 2009-05-08 15:47:21.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.29.3/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt 2009-05-18 12:03:58.000000000 -0700 @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ an upper limit on the block size imposed so 8kB blocks are only allowed on Alpha systems (and other architectures which support larger pages).
-There is an upper limit of 32768 subdirectories in a single directory. +There is an upper limit of 32000 subdirectories in a single directory.
There is a "soft" upper limit of about 10-15k files in a single directory with the current linear linked-list directory implementation. This limit -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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