Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:34:10 -0700 (PDT)


From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Date: 04 Sep 2002 16:29:21 -0400

The patch will probably cause reiserfs problems as well, we've already
got people with > 32767 links on disk, going to a lower number will
confuse things.

And that means you already have reiserfs partitions that cannot
be used on other Linux platforms. That's pretty bad.


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