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SubjectRe: [BUG] debugfs: hard link count wrong
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:04:23AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > > Device: eh/14d Inode: 15528 Links: 2
> > > Links should be 3, I thought? For an empty directory it's 2 and as soon as
> > > you create a new directory in there it should be increased by 1. Therefore
> > > it should be 3. Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Yeah, I think you are correct. But I don't see where in the debugfs
> > code I messed this up...
> >
> > In debugfs_mkdir() we increment the parent i_nlink properly if we create
> > the new subdirectory, and based on other implementations like this
> > (usbfs), that logic seems to be correct.
> >
> > Unless something is odd with creating a directory in the root of the fs.
> > Does the subdirectory you have created have the proper number of links?
>
> Yes, everything below the debug directory itself seems to be ok.
>
> > > Btw.: my find version: "GNU find version 4.2.20".
> > Hm, newer versions of find don't complain about this?
>
> The latest version I could find at http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/
> is 4.2.27 which still complains. No, idea from where you got the 4.2.30 :)

I'm running 4.3.0, not 4.2.30. I don't know where it came from either,
gentoo's unstable tree has it, and caused me to download it from
somewhere when I built it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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