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author | Michael Shields <mshields@google.com> | 2009-06-17 19:26:22 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-18 16:03:44 -0400 |
commit | ce05b2a9db1d86635a906f14427deff97eeb6183 (patch) | |
tree | ea10251badb6b44bd4b136190a0d27138b974189 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | 39fe7557b4d6ab82bafaa7b92b98b806afe6ad0d (diff) |
Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768
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".
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt index e055acb6b2d4..67639f905f10 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt | |||
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ an upper limit on the block size imposed by the page size of the kernel, | |||
322 | so 8kB blocks are only allowed on Alpha systems (and other architectures | 322 | so 8kB blocks are only allowed on Alpha systems (and other architectures |
323 | which support larger pages). | 323 | which support larger pages). |
324 | 324 | ||
325 | There is an upper limit of 32768 subdirectories in a single directory. | 325 | There is an upper limit of 32000 subdirectories in a single directory. |
326 | 326 | ||
327 | There is a "soft" upper limit of about 10-15k files in a single directory | 327 | There is a "soft" upper limit of about 10-15k files in a single directory |
328 | with the current linear linked-list directory implementation. This limit | 328 | with the current linear linked-list directory implementation. This limit |