boltdb/bolt — pull request #219 by benbjohnson (2014-07-10 20:55:59+00:00)
Title: Allow freelist overflow.

## Overview

This commit is a backwards compatible change that allows the freelist to overflow the page.count (uint16). It works by checking if the overflow will occur and marking the page.count as 0xFFFF and setting the actual count to the first element of the freelist.

This approach was used because it's backwards compatible and it doesn't make sense to change the data type of all page counts when only the freelist's page can overflow.

Fixes #192.

/cc @snormore @mkobetic @tv42