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? ;)
Actually patch might be easily modified to represent i_nlink == 1 for
large directories, but still maintain correct on-disk nlink count.
(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 ;) ).
> find isn't the only program that makes this assumption (it's just the
> only one I can think of ;-)
All of these programs are broken if there is no way to turn this feature off
then. ;)
> Other than that the patch (the second one diffed against the correct
> tree) looks sane.
Good.
Bye,
Oleg
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