Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:06:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: unsigned short for nlink_t |
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On 5 Dec 1999, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Physical layout of many filesystems doesn't support that. Ditto > > for NFS, IIRC. > > Both the NFSv2 and v3 protocols allow an unsigned 32-bit value for > 'nlinks'.
Oops. Sorry. IOW, Sun decide that there was nothing around to pack together with nlinks and with 32bit alignment... Anyway, neither s5fs, nor FFS and its derivatives (UFS, ext2) have enough place in inode for that stuff. So...
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