On Aug 04, 2007 09:51 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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. I haven't tested hard-linked files myself, but they should remain with a limit of EXT2_LINK_MAX. It is only for directories that the link count can be exceeded. We have definitely tested with > 65000 subdirs. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
