Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:25:45 +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 12:45:34PM -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.
Ok, I will come up with revised patch tomorrow and do 2.5 port (and advise Vitaly about reiserfsck part)
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