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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:34:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   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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