https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 --- Comment #2 from michelbach94@xxxxxxxxx --- Thank you, Ted. Is it necessary for it to "break" (quotes because 1 seems to be a kind-of wildcard) at such a low and weird value? This behavior doesn't occur with ext4 ram disks. Run the same command, possibly with an even higher number, but within an ext4 ram disk, created via $ sudo mount -t ramfs -o size=4G ext4 <path> Example output: $ ll total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 christoph root 0 Jul 18 22:59 ./ drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 4096 Jul 18 23:00 ../ drwxrwxr-x 446639 christoph christoph 0 Jul 18 23:05 d/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.