Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:36:15 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t |
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David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> > Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:31:36 +0400 > > The proper fix should be to make the result of the limit > computation be accurately architecture specific. > >And then each and every Reiserfs partition is platform specific >and cannot be mounted onto another Linux platform. > >Creating such a restriction is a grave error. > > > > And you would cripple the 99% usage to aid those users who move disk drives physically over to a sparc box AND have more than 31k links to a file?
Or is there some usage pattern that I don't appreciate that makes it highly likely that people will swap disks into a sparc? Maybe these hot plug ruggedized with plastic covers IDE disks that there was some press about being a substitute for DVDs a few months ago?
Frankly, I had doubts about our code that causes CPU order to not be used in the disk format, but I was persuaded that it was not a measurable performance loss to do it and said yes.
I recognize that you may see things from a perspective that I have not experienced, so please articulate on that if so.
Hans
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