Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:27:12 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: unsigned short for nlink_t |
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > You can migrate between ext2 and ext3 without a reformat. We'd lose > > all of that unless we could find spare space (hah!) in the ext2 inode > > in which to store the high bits of the link count in a compatible > > manner. > > How about indirect inodes for those rare cases?
Trust me, you _don't_ want to go there. If I understood you right, it's _the_ way to madness. There are examples of such braindamage - check them, it's not a pretty sight.
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