Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:53:57 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: unsigned short for nlink_t |
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> Currently we have an unsigned short used for the number of hard links to a > file. > I have an application which uses 30,000 hard links and I had hoped to scale > it to more than 64K hard links... > > Is there any possibility that this could be changed in future kernels? Or is > POSIX forcing it to be only a 16bit number?
Physical layout of many filesystems doesn't support that. Ditto for NFS, IIRC.
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