Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:17:21 +0400 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t |
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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? ;)
Actually patch might be easily modified to represent i_nlink == 1 for large directories, but still maintain correct on-disk nlink count. (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 ;) ).
> find isn't the only program that makes this assumption (it's just the > only one I can think of ;-)
All of these programs are broken if there is no way to turn this feature off then. ;)
> Other than that the patch (the second one diffed against the correct > tree) looks sane.
Good.
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