Re: unsigned short for nlink_t

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:43:41 +0100

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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> You can migrate between ext2 and ext3 without a reformat. We'd lose
> all of that unless we could find spare space (hah!) in the ext2 inode
> in which to store the high bits of the link count in a compatible
> manner.

How about indirect inodes for those rare cases?

-- Jamie

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