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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] st_nlink after rmdir() and rename()
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:26:14 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbbj96yh.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinSiD3YakBTNfYXrE12YDsDREHX3GzLzCncduTV@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:52:18 -0800")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi
> <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote:
>>
>> And I can't only see is why you refuse to make consistent behavior (if
>> you are saying it). It's why I said if it's _really easy_.
>
> The thing is, it really isn't really easy. As mentioned, it's actually
> impossible on NFS, and it's possibly impossible on other filesystems
> too.

I don't know much about NFS though, I imaged the NFS just fill the
stat.st_nlink to return to userland by 0 if sillyrenamed dentry? (of
course, I'm not saying let's emulate "i_nlink >= 1" on all
filesystems. just about i_nlink == 0) I was thinking Al is working for
it...

And yeah, if it doesn't have consistency on system, I would agree it
would not be meaningful.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-03  3:24 [RFC] st_nlink after rmdir() and rename() Al Viro
2011-03-03  4:42 ` Al Viro
2011-03-03  5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-03  6:03   ` Al Viro
2011-03-03 20:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-03 20:46       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-03-03 20:50         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-03-03 21:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-03 21:30           ` Al Viro
2011-03-03 21:37           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-03-03 21:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-03 22:26               ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2011-03-03 22:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-03 23:14                   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2011-03-03 23:12                 ` Al Viro
2011-03-03 22:57               ` Al Viro
2011-03-03 23:07                 ` Al Viro
2011-03-04  6:55                 ` omfs fixes Al Viro
2011-03-04 15:24                   ` Bob Copeland
2011-03-03 21:23       ` [RFC] st_nlink after rmdir() and rename() Al Viro
2011-03-03 14:34 ` Theodore Tso
2011-03-03 16:17   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-03 19:16   ` Al Viro

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