> 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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