https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 --- Comment #19 from Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@xxxxxxxxx) --- Ted, I think the right approach is to stop the ext4 kernel code from enabling dir_nlink automatically, but continue to set it by default at format time for new filesystems. I suspect the number of users that want to get an error returned when their directory grows large is very few, but at least they will be able to turn off dir_nlink and/or create the filesystem without this feature in the first place. This will make the dir_nlink feature more consistent with other features as well. What I also just noticed is that e2fsck does not enable the dir_nlink feature in the superblock in case i_links_count > EXT2_LINK_MAX. I'm just working on a patch for this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
