[Ocfs2-users] Hardlinks
Joel Becker
Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Thu Jun 1 20:03:53 CDT 2006
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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