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Widening ext4's readdir() cookie

Widening ext4's readdir() cookie

Posted Mar 30, 2013 5:40 UTC (Sat) by Mog (subscriber, #29529)
Parent article: Widening ext4's readdir() cookie

> a directory with 32,768 entries (the historical limit in ext2)

Is it correct ? I remember a limitation on the number of subdirs due to the nlink field in the stat structure being a short, but not on the total number of entries (sudirs+files+...).


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