Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!br From: br@laura.UUCP (Bodo Rueskamp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Fsck uses short for inode number. (Sco xenix [23]86) Keywords: fsck inode short Message-ID: <1316@laura.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 89 14:54:07 GMT References: <459@mrecvax.UUCP> Reply-To: br@laura.UUCP (Bodo Rueskamp) Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany Lines: 10 In article <459@mrecvax.UUCP> tron@mrecvax.UUCP (Carlos Mendioroz) writes: >The problem with doing so is that almost every utility that comes >with xenix thinks that an inode number is < 2^16. Fsck belongs to >this family... That's a kernel limit. Layout of a directory entry: 2 bytes inode number + 14 bytes file name = 16 bytes dir entry -- Bodo Rueskamp,