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Date: 13 Jul 2001 22:22:00 +0200
From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)  wrote on 13.07.01 in <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107130623510.17323-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:

> The only really obscure part is dropping an extra reference if victim is
> a directory - then we know that we are cannibalizing the last external
> link to it and the only link that remains is victim's ".". We don't want
> it to prevent victim's removal, so we drive i_nlink of victim to zero.

Does this stuff work right with those cases which do linkcount=1 either  
because the fs doesn't have a link count, or because the real link count  
has grown too large?

MfG Kai
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