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