Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758947Ab1CCW0V (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:26:21 -0500 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:45975 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756856Ab1CCW0T (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:26:19 -0500 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] st_nlink after rmdir() and rename() References: <20110303032454.GI22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20110303060352.GK22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87tyfk7x0c.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <87lj0v9984.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:26:14 +0900 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:52:18 -0800") Message-ID: <87hbbj96yh.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 29 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi > 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 -- 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/