Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t | From | Chris Mason <> | Date | 05 Sep 2002 12:45:34 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 10:17, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:03:44AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > read the -noleaf description on the find man page to see why we need to > > set the directory link count to 1 when we are lying to userspace about > > the actual link count on directories. > > There is nothing about nlink == 1 means assume -noleaf, so it should not work > with old way too, right? Have anybody verified? ;)
I remember that happening during the initial discussions for the link patch. 1 was chosen as the best way to do it, since it was a flag to various programs that the unix directory link convention was not being followed.
> > Actually patch might be easily modified to represent i_nlink == 1 for > large directories, but still maintain correct on-disk nlink count.
Right.
> (and show maximal possible nlink count for regular files. Hm, > I wonder if tar and stuff would break if met with file that have > 67000 hardlinks ;) ).
Certainly seems like it would on sparc at least ;-)
-chris
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