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Number of Links to a File

In VxFS, the number of possible links to a file is determined by the vx_maxlink global tunable. The default value of vx_maxlink is 32767, the maximum value is 65535. This is a static tunable.

You can set the value of vx_maxlink using the sam or kctune commands.

See the sam(1M) and kctune(1M) manual pages.

You can also add an entry to the system configuration file as shown in the following example:

vxfs_maxlink vx_maxlink 40000

This sets the value of vx_maxlink to 40,000 links.