https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 --- Comment #6 from Paul Eggert (eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx) --- (In reply to Andreas Dilger from comment #5) > the "link count == 1" meaning is historical for ancient filesystems ... > it didn't mean "lots of subdirectories", but rather "I don't know the > subdirectory count at all". This meaning is still true for ext4. For example: $ mkdir d d/{1..64998} $ rm -fr d $ mkdir d $ ls -ld d drwxr-xr-x 2 eggert eggert 4096 Jul 18 15:14 d $ mkdir d/{1..64998} $ rmdir d/* $ ls -ld d drwxr-xr-x 1 eggert eggert 1441792 Jul 18 15:14 d That last link count of 1 means "I don't know the subdirectory count", even though d has no subdirectories whatsoever. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
