On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Manuel Wiesinger wrote: > My question is: > Is the number of subdirectories really limited by (2^15)-1?
Yes. A subdirectory creates a hard-link to the parent directory's inode and nlink counter is 16bit. Whether or not that is interpreted as signed in all places I don't know from memory, but the limit is certainly smaller than 2^16. > If, yes why does dump iterate the indirect blocks, when looking for > subdirectories? Not sure about whether it is just a more generalised implementation than necessary. Note that the Oracle documentation is for a slightly different version of FFS... Joerg
