Ocfs2 users - Jun 2006 - Hardlinks

Is there a limit on number of hardlinks you can have in a directory?  I
know you can only have up to 32,000 subdirectories but it appears that
this limit applies to hardlinks as well.

Thanks,
-James

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:19:08PM -0600, James Lee
wrote:
> Is there a limit on number of hardlinks you can have in a directory?  I
> know you can only have up to 32,000 subdirectories but it appears that
> this limit applies to hardlinks as well.
	The limit has nothing to do with subdirectories.  It's the
number of links to an inode, period.  You can have 32K-1 names that
point to a particular inode.  With subdirectories, the subdir/.. is a
name that points to this inode.  With a hardlink, it's whatever you
specifed to ln(1).
	You can have 32K-1 links on an inode.

Joel


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