[lug] # of subdirectory limits

[Andrew Diederich]

Folks,

I've run into a limit on Solaris 8, and was wondering if the same thing
happened to linux.  I wa creating bunches of subdirectories, and ran
into a limit at 32767 because of the limit on the number of links a file
can have to it.  So in Solaris if you:

% grep LINK_MAX /usr/include/limits.h 
#define LINK_MAX        32767

you see that you can't have more than 32766 subdirectories in a directory,
and this apparently isn't changable.  So, what is this in linux, and is it
a compile-time option in the kernel?  Enquiring minds want to know.

Danke.
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    Andrew Diederich