zfs and st_nlink limit at 32767

Sami Halabi sodynet1 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 21:23:19 UTC 2016


it seems an integer limit (32bit).. I guess easily to fix by converting to
unsigned int / 64 bit.

sami
בתאריך 5 במרץ 2016 9:54 PM,‏ "Nagy, Attila" <bra at fsn.hu> כתב:

> Hi,
>
> If I create a million hard links to a file, stat -s says it has 32767:
> $ stat -s 900402.24.t
> st_dev=1709683738 st_ino=719745 st_mode=0100644 st_nlink=32767 st_uid=1001
> st_gid=0 st_rdev=4294967295 st_size=81688 st_atime=1455881393
> st_mtime=1455881393 st_ctime=1457206643 st_birthtime=1457206536
> st_blksize=81920 st_blocks=67 st_flags=2048
>
> Is this a limitation somewhere which is hard to remove, or just an easily
> fixable "legacy" from the times, when all filesystems contained this limit?
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