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| author | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2012-01-13 11:35:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2012-01-13 11:43:59 -0800 |
| commit | a8783adf24a8c40dcae0fbfa90eb231212f26884 (patch) | |
| tree | 431802394ba462ff4fd359cd3e19ef720625b235 | |
| parent | 58d956b085c31bde695d03dbf415e118cd350e0f (diff) | |
Increase link count limit to 2^31-1
Originally, the per-file link limit was set to 65536 because the
exact Linux VFS limit was unclear. Internally ZFS is able to
support 64-bit link counts. After a more careful investigation
the limit can be safely raised to 2^31-1.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Closes #514
| -rw-r--r-- | include/sys/zfs_vfsops.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/sys/zfs_vfsops.h b/include/sys/zfs_vfsops.h index b7badeed8..7b70f32ea 100644 --- a/include/sys/zfs_vfsops.h +++ b/include/sys/zfs_vfsops.h @@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ typedef struct zfs_sb { /* * Allow a maximum number of links. While ZFS does not internally limit - * this most Linux filesystems do. It's probably a good idea to limit - * this to a large value until it is validated that this is safe. + * this the inode->i_nlink member is defined as an unsigned int. To be + * safe we use 2^31-1 as the limit. */ -#define ZFS_LINK_MAX 65536 +#define ZFS_LINK_MAX ((1U << 31) - 1U) /* * Normal filesystems (those not under .zfs/snapshot) have a total |