On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 10:17, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 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? ;)
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.
> (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 ;) ).
Certainly seems like it would on sparc at least ;-)
-chris
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