On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:16:12AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:46:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * WTF is XFS doing with these checks? It is validating nlink against the maximum supported by the XFS on-disk format. It was originally limited by what could be reported to pathconf() on Irix - a signed int. We have that same problem on Linux, too, because on 32 bit systems the maximum number of links that can be reported via pathconf is 2^31.... > Note that we have them > done _twice_ on all paths - explictly from xfs_create(), xfs_link(), > xfs_rename() and then from xfs_bumplink() called by exactly the same > set of functions. Well, that's a bit stupid, isn't it? Trivial to fix, though... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
