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SubjectRe: unsigned short for nlink_t
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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