NTFS driver excessive logging by default: Correct links count

Artem S. Tashkinov
2025-06-28T21:41:47Z

Hello,

This is my ~21th attempt to draw attention to this issue. Konstantin has
been emailed twice with a clean Windows image that exhibits the issue.

Whenever I list files on my NTFS partitions I get a lot of SPAM in
dmesg, e.g.:

ntfs3: sda3: ino=14c, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=73, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=167, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=d9, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=d5, Correct links count -> 1.

And the partition in question has been fully chkdsk'ed and has no issues.

Please fix.

This is still reproducible as of 6.15.4. I first reported the issue for
Linux 6.8.2, i.e. over a year ago. Maybe someone could look into it
after all. I can email you an NTFS image if necessary but _ANY_ Windows
10 or 11 install will exhibit it.

Best regards,
Artem