Bug 207763

Summary:	stat()'s st_nlink is capped to 32767
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	nagy.attila
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	sigsys
Priority:	---
Version:	10.3-BETA2
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description nagy.attila 2016-03-07 08:19:19 UTC

UFS limits the number of hard links to a file to signed 16 bit integers.
ZFS doesn't have this limit and allows creating millions of hardlinks to a file.
The problem here is stat reports false values after 32767, it's capped to that value.

It would be good to fix this legacy someday.

Discussed here:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2016-March/022845.html