From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>
Cc: Christopher Li <git@chrisli•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:58:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <425EA152.4090506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504140038450.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I'll tell you why a flat object directory format simply isn't an option.
>
> Hint: maximum directory size. It's limited by n_link, and it's almost
> universally a 16-bit number on Linux (and generally artifically limited to
> 32000 entries).
>
> In other words, if you ever expect to have more than 32000 objects, a flat
> space simply isn't possible.
>
Eh?! n_link limits the number of *subdirectories* a directory can
contain, not the number of *entries*.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-14 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 4:19 Yet another base64 patch H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 2:24 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 5:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 2:42 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 6:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 6:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 7:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-14 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 19:11 ` bert hubert
2005-04-14 19:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 21:47 ` bert hubert
2005-04-15 0:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-17 4:10 ` David Lang
2005-04-18 6:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 3:58 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17 3:53 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 4:05 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17 6:38 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 8:16 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17 17:51 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 18:19 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 5:13 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-18 12:59 ` Kevin Smith
2005-04-18 16:42 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 14:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-17 16:29 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-14 4:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 8:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 17:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 23:55 ` Paul Dickson
2005-04-18 6:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
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