From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: szepe@pinerecords.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:25:45 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020905212545.A5349@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031244334.1684.264.camel@tiny>
Hello!
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:45:34PM -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? ;)
> I remember that happening during the initial discussions for the link
> patch. 1 was chosen as the best way to do it, since it was a flag to
> various programs that the unix directory link convention was not being
> followed.
> > Actually patch might be easily modified to represent i_nlink == 1 for
> > large directories, but still maintain correct on-disk nlink count.
> Right.
Ok, I will come up with revised patch tomorrow and do 2.5 port (and
advise Vitaly about reiserfsck part)
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-05 17:21 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
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 [this message]
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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