Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759892AbXEIWur (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 18:50:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755800AbXEIWuc (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 18:50:32 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:54534 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754927AbXEIWua (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 18:50:30 -0400 Message-ID: <46425039.3090408@goop.org> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:50:33 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Mackall CC: David Chinner , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? References: <4642389E.4080804@goop.org> <20070509215538.GK11115@waste.org> <46424896.8080506@goop.org> <20070509224423.GL11115@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20070509224423.GL11115@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/