16 bits link count

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

there was a discussion recently on cubfm about some guy who
has problems converting his setup from windows to freebsd
because he has more than 32k directories  stuffed in a directory
which is not allowed seemingly in all *BSD by the size of the
link count in inode.h. Apparently this same size is an unsigned integer
in Linux, so that at least reiserfs can cope with this situation.
Since *BSD have dirhash, saying that such a vast number of entries is
bad in a directory is not really adequate. What do you think about
enlarging this field? Of course i understand that this is incompatible
with all other BSDs :-(




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Michel Talon