> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
>> Currently we have an unsigned short used for the number of hard
>> links to a file. I have an application which uses 30,000 hard
>> links and I had hoped to scale it to more than 64K hard
>> links...
>>
>> Is there any possibility that this could be changed in future
>> kernels? Or is POSIX forcing it to be only a 16bit number?
> Physical layout of many filesystems doesn't support that. Ditto
> for NFS, IIRC.
Both the NFSv2 and v3 protocols allow an unsigned 32-bit value for
'nlinks'.
Cheers,
Trond
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