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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm-VDJrAJ4Gl5ZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Strange hardlink behavior with CIFS
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:13:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBD6843.3060702@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287428685.16450.282.camel@calx>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18 19:04 Strange hardlink behavior with CIFS Matt Mackall
2010-10-19  9:43 ` Suresh Jayaraman [this message]
2010-10-20  9:18   ` bjoern
     [not found]     ` <loom.20101020T111137-239-eS7Uydv5nfjZ+VzJOa5vwg@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-20 15:01       ` Steve French
     [not found]   ` <4CBD6843.3060702-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-27 17:31     ` Matt Mackall
2010-10-27 20:32       ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]         ` <20101027163230.28591971-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-27 20:49           ` Matt Mackall
2010-10-28 11:08           ` Suresh Jayaraman
     [not found]             ` <4CC959AC.10301-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 11:46               ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                 ` <20101028074650.3e035241-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-29 10:51                   ` Suresh Jayaraman
     [not found]                     ` <4CCAA73D.80009-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-29 11:19                       ` Jeff Layton

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