On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Manuel Wiesinger wrote: > When testing, the maximum number of subdirectories was 32767, which is > (2^15)-1, when trying to add a 32767th directory, I got the error > message: "Too many links".
This one is simple: a subdirectory has a ".." entry, which increases the link count in the parent directory, so overall you can not have more than LINK_MAX subdirectories. > When my tools reads only the single indirect blocks, it get all 32767 > subdirectories. This is assuming there are no regular files in the directory. If there are (first, before the subdirectories), will it still work? Martin
