On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:13 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > On 10/19/2010 12:34 AM, Matt Mackall wrote: > > With Linux 2.6.32-35 and either Windows or Samba in nounix mode, > > hardlink counts can mysteriously disappear: > > > > - create hardlink pair foo,bar > > - stat foo -> nlink = 2 > > - open foo > > - stat foo -> nlink = 1 > > - close > > - wait or sync > > - ls -l -> nlink = 2 > > > > Original report is here: > > > > http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue1866 > > > > A quick test on 2.6.36-rc4 kernel reveals that the problem is no longer > reproducible. Could you try a more recent kernel and see whether the > problem is reproducible? Test continues to fail with 2.6.36. # uname -a Linux calx 2.6.36 #71 SMP Tue Oct 26 02:23:34 CDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux # mount -o nounix //localhost/stuff cifs ^^^^^^ # cd cifs # touch foo # ln foo bar # ./h file: foo nlinks 2 file: foo nlinks 1 file: foo nlinks 1 # cat h.c #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #define FPATH "foo" int main(void) { int rc, fh; struct stat st; rc = lstat(FPATH, &st); printf("file: %s nlinks %d\n", FPATH, st.st_nlink); fh = open(FPATH, 0, O_RDONLY); rc = lstat(FPATH, &st); printf("file: %s nlinks %d\n", FPATH, st.st_nlink); close(fh); rc = lstat(FPATH, &st); printf("file: %s nlinks %d\n", FPATH, st.st_nlink); return 0; } -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
