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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:50:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46425039.3090408@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509224423.GL11115@waste.org>

Matt Mackall wrote:
>> Which I am, extensively, but not on the repo that got damaged.  That's
>> why I was wondering about the nlink issues.  If I qpop a bunch of
>> patches after just pushing them, won't it simply truncate the file?
>>     
>
> Yep. But it will break links before doing that. Basically all opens go
> through a function that breaks links.
>   

Well, yes, but I was proposing the theory that xfs was misreporting the
linkcount, which would confuse the link-breaking logic, right?

    J


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-09 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-09 21:09 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 21:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:17   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 22:44     ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:50       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-05-09 23:16 ` David Chinner
2007-05-09 23:30   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10  0:01     ` David Chinner
2007-05-10  0:04       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10  0:49         ` David Chinner
2007-05-10  0:54           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10  1:26             ` David Chinner
     [not found]               ` <46433049.4020003@goop.org>
2007-05-10 15:38                 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-12 11:21                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 12:46                     ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 20:16                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:27                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:13                 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 21:23                   ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-10 21:32                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:49                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:41         ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:46           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:51             ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:54               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 22:58                 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:07                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:27                     ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:49                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-11  0:32                         ` David Chinner
2007-05-11 14:48                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-12  7:56                             ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 11:23                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 13:51                   ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 14:56                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-15  0:14                       ` David Chinner
2007-05-15 19:24                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:07               ` David Chinner

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