From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 196405] mkdir mishandles st_nlink in ext4 directory with 64997 subdirectories Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:57:35 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT To: linux-ext4@kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org ([198.145.29.98]:38884 "EHLO mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752892AbdGRV5h (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:57:37 -0400 Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838A628600 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:57:37 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405 Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilger.ca) changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilg | |er.ca --- Comment #5 from Andreas Dilger (adilger.kernelbugzilla@dilger.ca) --- FYI, the "link count == 1" meaning is historical for ancient filesystems which didn't track the link count of the directory at all. In that respect, it didn't mean "lots of subdirectories", but rather "I don't know the subdirectory count at all". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.