>>>>> Peter Staubach (PS) writes: PS> Just out of curosity, what keeps i_nlink from going to 0 immediately PS> after the new test is executed? i_mutex in vfs_link() and vfs_unlink() thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html