Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> If we really want to accept this image, we have to change the fat driver >> without affecting good image. And your patch affects to good image, >> because that patch doesn't count directory correctly, so bad link count. >> > > Well, it does behave the same on a correct image. It ignores the existence of > ".." when counting subdirs, but always adds an extra link count. > > So, images that have both "." and ".." subdirs, will have the 2 links, both > with the patch and without the patch. You are forgetting to count about normal dirs other than "." and ".."? Thanks. > Images with neither dirs will be rejected before the patch and have a link > count of 1 after the patch. Still, creating and removing subdirs will work. > Removing the bad dir itself also works. > > Images with only "." or only ".." would have a link count of 1 and be rejected > without the patch. > > With the patch, directories with only ".." should behave the same as if they > had neither subdirs. That is, link count of 1. And directories with only "." > will have a link count of 2. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
