Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:34:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:34:43 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:9955 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:34:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020904.173214.08949126.davem@redhat.com> To: reiser@namesys.com Cc: shaggy@austin.ibm.com, szepe@pinerecords.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aurora-sparc-devel@linuxpower.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, linuxjfs@us.ibm.com, green@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [PATCH] sparc32: wrong type of nlink_t From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3D76A6FF.509@namesys.com> References: <3D766DA8.9030207@namesys.com> <20020904.163515.82835380.davem@redhat.com> <3D76A6FF.509@namesys.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 18 From: Hans Reiser Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:36:15 +0400 And you would cripple the 99% usage to aid those users who move disk drives physically over to a sparc box AND have more than 31k links to a file? This is not a sparc or a x86 or x86_64 or ia64 thing. It's a global thing. It's about being portable and clean and not installing unnecessary restrictions. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/