Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:42:23 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: unsigned short for nlink_t |
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Hi,
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:07:07 +0100, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> said:
> Ext2 is currently being worked on significantly. The new one may be > called Ext3 or Journalled Ext2. In any case it's a significant > change and changing the storage of links should be possible.
No, the on-disk format in ext3 does not change, with the exception of the addition of the journal inode. 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.
--Stephen
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