Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

David S. Miller wrote:

>   From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
>   Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 00:31:36 +0400
>
>   The proper fix should be to make the result of the limit
>   computation be accurately architecture specific.
>
>And then each and every Reiserfs partition is platform specific
>and cannot be mounted onto another Linux platform.
>
>Creating such a restriction is a grave error.
>
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And you would cripple the 99% usage to aid those users who move disk 
drives physically over to a sparc box AND have more than 31k links to a 
file?

Or is there some usage pattern that I don't appreciate that makes it 
highly likely that people will swap disks into a sparc?  Maybe these hot 
plug ruggedized with plastic covers IDE disks that there was some press 
about being a substitute for DVDs a few months ago?

Frankly, I had doubts about our code that causes CPU order to not be 
used in the disk format, but I was persuaded that it was not a 
measurable performance loss to do it and said yes.

I recognize that you may see things from a perspective that I have not 
experienced, so please articulate on that if so.

Hans