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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Strange hardlink behavior with CIFS
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:13:31 +0530
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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?


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman