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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: UFS , SVR4, and inodes limits
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.151939.18119@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:19:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug6.014526.13249@isus.UUCP> <MJN.92Aug9042633@pseudo.uucp>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <MJN.92Aug9042633@pseudo.uucp>, mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt) writes:
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- | On a System V filesystem, directory entries contain only 2 bytes with
- | which to represent the inode of a file, thus the limit of 64K inodes
- | per filesystem. The actual number of available inodes is one less
- | than this, as inode 0 is reserved to indicate an empty directory
- | entry.
-
- ??? What has this to do with the ufs filesystem the original poster
- mentioned?
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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