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A NILFS2 score card

Posted Nov 7, 2012 23:25 UTC (Wed) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
Parent article: A NILFS2 score card

> would you ever have more than 65535 [..] sub-directories in one directory?

Easily. This looks like a real (rather than a hypothetical) limitation.

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A NILFS2 score card

Posted Nov 8, 2012 16:31 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Actually, both people I know and we admins at my employer’s place have run into this issue with some filesystems. Mostly on mailservers and web caches, though.