Max # of files/dirs under Linux?

[Bill Freeman]

bscott at ntisys.com writes:
 > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, at 2:17pm, f at ke1g.mv.com wrote:
 > >>   Maximum number of files in a single directory = Unlimited
 > >>   Maximum number of subdirectories in a single directory = 32768
 > > 
 > > But a subdirectory is a file.  (At least it was on good/bad old UFS.)  
...
 > Every directory has ... a link [from[ each of its subdirectories
 > (named "..").
...
 >  One obvious guess would be that the link-count for an
 > inode is stored in a 16-bit signed integer, but I really don't know.

That sounds likely.