On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:26:05PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > If there is a directory with more than EXT2_LINK_MAX (65000) > subdirectories, but the DIR_NLINK feature is not set in the > superblock, the feature should be set before continuing on > to change the on-disk directory link count to 1. > > While most filesystems should have DIR_NLINK set (it was set > by default for all ext4 filesystems, and all kernels between > 2.6.23 and 4.12 automatically set it if the directory link > count grew too large), it is possible that this flag is lost > due to disk corruption or for an upgraded filesystem. We no > longer want kernels to automatically enable features. > > Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 > Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted
