On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:26:14AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi > > <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> And I can't only see is why you refuse to make consistent behavior (if > >> you are saying it). It's why I said if it's _really easy_. > > > > The thing is, it really isn't really easy. As mentioned, it's actually > > impossible on NFS, and it's possibly impossible on other filesystems > > too. > > I don't know much about NFS though, I imaged the NFS just fill the > stat.st_nlink to return to userland by 0 if sillyrenamed dentry? (of > course, I'm not saying let's emulate "i_nlink >= 1" on all > filesystems. just about i_nlink == 0) I was thinking Al is working for > it... No. I don't really care much about what NFS does with st_nlink. It might be possible to fake for directories, but you'll have a hell of a time doing that accurately for regular files. Not worth doing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
