Re: hardlink overflow

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:46:28PM +0800, Eric Mei wrote:

> it seems linux-XFS didn't check it's overflow. simply add 65536
> hardlink to a file will make their nlink to 0.

Yes, I can confirm I've seen this too.  It's not hard to patch this in
XFS, but in general I wonder if this fix doesn't really belong in the
VFS layer and there *are* system calls that can return larger than the
16-bit value.



  --cw