From: Michael Shields Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:26:22 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768 X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.2.0-15.16~29100 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce05b2a9db1d86635a906f14427deff97eeb6183;p=mirror_ubuntu-eoan-kernel.git 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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, so 8kB blocks are only allowed on Alpha systems (and other architectures which support larger pages). -There is an upper limit of 32768 subdirectories in a single directory. +There is an upper limit of 32000 subdirectories in a single directory. There is a "soft" upper limit of about 10-15k files in a single directory with the current linear linked-list directory implementation. This limit