From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
mason@suse.com, reiser@namesys.com, shaggy@austin.ibm.com,
marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
aurora-sparc-devel@linuxpower.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com,
linuxjfs@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:56:38 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020905095638.B5351@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020905054858.GI24323@louise.pinerecords.com>
Hello!
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:48:58AM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > Does the internal reiserfs nlink value translate directly
> > to what stat() puts in st_nlink?
> > It really doesn't matter. Even if you have some huge value that can't
> > be represented in st_nlink, you can report to the user that st_nlink
> > is NLINK_MAX.
> > This is one possible solution to this whole problem.
> And a pretty straightforward one, too. Convert the internal reiserfs
> link stuff to an unsigned short, find NLINK_MAX using the code I posted
Too bad it is 32bit nlink field in on disk format ;)
> last night (or maybe simply grab it from userspace includes) and add
> a check to your stat() code to return NLINK_MAX if necessary.
Ok, I think I will rework it to something sensible, because current code is
somewhat a mess and corrupt correct nlink value on overflows. Hm.
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-05 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-01 8:55 [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t Tomas Szepe
2002-09-01 8:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-01 9:44 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-04 20:18 ` Dave Kleikamp
2002-09-04 20:29 ` [reiserfs-dev] " Chris Mason
2002-09-04 23:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-06 8:52 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 20:31 ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-04 21:18 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-04 21:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 21:57 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:35 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 0:36 ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-05 0:32 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 0:49 ` Chris Mason
2002-09-05 5:40 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-05 5:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 5:48 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-05 5:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 9:46 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-09-05 5:56 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2002-09-05 5:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 6:07 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 5:59 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-05 9:54 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 10:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-05 13:49 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 13:57 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 14:03 ` Chris Mason
2002-09-05 14:17 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 16:45 ` Chris Mason
2002-09-05 17:25 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 21:18 ` jw schultz
2002-09-05 22:02 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2002-09-05 22:57 ` jw schultz
2002-09-06 0:01 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2002-09-06 1:41 ` jw schultz
2002-09-06 2:29 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2002-09-05 16:09 ` Dave Kleikamp
2002-09-05 16:13 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 17:58 ` Dave Kleikamp
2002-09-06 13:54 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-05 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 23:33 ` David S. Miller
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