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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: silly-deleting symlinks?
Date: 01 Apr 2002 21:18:10 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

     > I've just noticed that nfsd tries to silly-delete symlinks.
     > Server: vanilla 2.2.20 SMP Client: vanilla 2.4.18 SMP Mount
     > options: rw,nodev,v2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,udp,lock

     > Sometimes I see some .nfs<XXXX> files which are symlinks. How
     > can symlinks be "in use" and be subject to silly-deletion?

Sillydelete just looks at the number of counts on the dentry. If the
count is > 1 then the dentry is deemed to be 'in use' no matter what
the type of inode.

Cheers,
  Trond

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