Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:58:58 -0700

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