On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> This patch includes the changes required to e2fsck to understand the
> nlink count changes made in the kernel. In pass2, while counting the
> links for a directory, if the link count exceeds 65000, its permanently
> set to EXT2_NLINK_MAXED (EXT2_LINK_MAX + 100). In pass4, when the
> counted and actual nlink counts are compared, e2fsck does not flag
> an error if counted links = EXT2_NLINK_MAXED and existing link count is 1.
Has this actually been implemented in the kernel? I don't think I've
seen a patch which implements the a large number file links. The
65000 subdir patch does *not* define EXT2_NLINK_MAXED, nor does this
patch. And this patch seems to use EXT2_LINK_MAX + 10, not +100.
- Ted
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