David Howells <dwh@nexor.co.uk> writes: > Shouldn't i_count be checked against some upper limit (say 32767) and error > EMLINK be returned if the max is already reached? >
Quite a few places in the kernel depend on i_count being unlimited.
Changing the thing to 32 bit makes sense. We're unlikely to exceed _that_.
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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH
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