From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:58:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch
Message-ID: <425EA152.4090506@zytor.com>
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