https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 --- Comment #24 from Theodore Tso (tytso@xxxxxxx) --- An update to e2fsprogs to clarify how dir_nlink works in the ext4 man page. - Ted commit 7d8f358cdce948df57b1001b9c278f33519afa86 Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jul 23 18:51:22 2017 -0400 Clarify how the description of the dir_nlink feature in the ext4 man page Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/misc/ext4.5.in b/misc/ext4.5.in index c1e67abbc..3511dae62 100644 --- a/misc/ext4.5.in +++ b/misc/ext4.5.in @@ -69,7 +69,12 @@ ext2 file systems. .TP .B dir_nlink .br -This ext4 feature allows more than 65000 subdirectories per directory. +Normally ext4 allows an inode to have no more than 65,000 hard links. +This applies to files as well as directories, which means that there can +be no more than 64,998 subdirectories in a directory (because each of +the '..' entries counts as a hard link). This feature lifts this limit +by causing ext4 to use a links count of 1 to indicate that the number of +hard links to a directory is not known. .TP .B encrypt .br -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
