On Jan 17, 2007  16:47 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > On Jan 12, 2007  14:45 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> p.s. ext3_inc_count and ext3_dec_count seem misnamed, have an unused
> >> arg, and are very infrequently called.  I'll probably submit a patch
> >> to just put the single line of code into the caller, too.
> > 
> > I use those functions in the > 32000 subdirs patch to handle the case
> > where a directory overflows the i_nlinks counter and needs to be set
> > to have i_nlinks = 1.
> > 
> > Patch was posted previously, but rejected because there is a potential
> > for directory loss if the filesystem is mounted on an older kernel
> > (i_nlinks == 1, subdir is removed, directory is truncated).  I need to
> > add an ROCOMPAT feature in order to handle this, but haven't gotten
> > around to doing it.
> 
> Ah, ok.  Sorry I'd missed that.  Can we at least rename them to
> something that makes sense? :)

I have no objection to renaming them, but had previously left them as-is
because it meant a smaller patch.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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