The patch titled
Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768
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doc-fix-ext2-can-only-have-32000-subdirs-not-32768.patch
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Subject: Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768
From: Michael Shields <mshields@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt~doc-fix-ext2-can-only-have-32000-subdirs-not-32768 Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt~doc-fix-ext2-can-only-have-32000-subdirs-not-32768
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ an upper limit on the block size imposed
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
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mshields@xxxxxxxxxx are
doc-fix-ext2-can-only-have-32000-subdirs-not-32768.patch
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