https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 --- Comment #22 from Theodore Tso (tytso@xxxxxxx) --- Right, the fact that the two bugs that Michael cited was about the st_nlinks being "wrong" is in fact a good thing. Paul is asserting that there is vast amount of breakage because ext4 can return an st_nlinks value of 1 on a directory, to the extent that he believes we should withdrawing the dir_nlinks feature. My argument is if we've lived with this for ten years without users screaming about things being broken, then we're probably ok and we should fix this by changing the documentation. Paul then responded by pointing out the bugs. But if the bugs are about st_nlinks being "wrong" causing users to be confused, and not about real life use cases breaking, then I'm going to be much less concerned. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
