Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why partition disks?
Keywords: partition, disk, SCSI
Message-ID: <3419@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 Jun 90 20:56:48 GMT
References: <157@locke.water.ca.gov> <154@TWG.UUCP> <912@gistdev.gist.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>1. Each file system can have at most 65,535 inodes, because the inode
>number is stored in a 16 bit field in the directories.

Speak for yourself.  There exist versions of UNIX with more modern file
systems that have 32-bit inumbers; the original poster didn't specify
what flavor of UNIX they have, so they may or may not have a 64K inode
limitation on their file systems.