From d7f373b4d627117327b0976bb6fe9d6f38e37163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:31:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Further cleanups of the dir_link documentation in the ext4 man page Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- misc/ext4.5.in | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/ext4.5.in b/misc/ext4.5.in index 3511dae..021cd19 100644 --- a/misc/ext4.5.in +++ b/misc/ext4.5.in @@ -69,12 +69,14 @@ ext2 file systems. .TP .B dir_nlink .br -Normally ext4 allows an inode to have no more than 65,000 hard links. -This applies to files as well as directories, which means that there can -be no more than 64,998 subdirectories in a directory (because each of -the '..' entries counts as a hard link). This feature lifts this limit -by causing ext4 to use a links count of 1 to indicate that the number of -hard links to a directory is not known. +Normally, ext4 allows an inode to have no more than 65,000 hard links. +This applies to regular files as well as directories, which means that +there can be no more than 64,998 subdirectories in a directory (because +each of the '.' and '..' entries, as well as the directory entry for the +directory in its parent directory counts as a hard link). This feature +lifts this limit by causing ext4 to use a link count of 1 to indicate +that the number of hard links to a directory is not known when the link +count might exceed the maximum count limit. .TP .B encrypt .br -- 1.8.3.1