> ... and see viro/vfs.git#work.persistency for the part of the queue that
> had order already settled down (I'm reshuffling the tail at the moment;
> hypfs commit is still in the leftovers pile - the whole thing used to
> have a really messy topology, with most of the prep work that used to
> be the cause of that topology already in mainline - e.g. rpc_pipefs
> series, securityfs one, etc.)
Speaking of which, nfsctl series contains the following and I'd like to
make sure that behaviour being fixed there *is* just an accident...
Could nfsd folks comment?
[PATCH] nfsctl: don't bump st_nlink of directory when creating a symlink in it
apparently blindly copied from mkdir...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index bc6b776fc657..282b961d8788 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -1181,7 +1181,6 @@ static int __nfsd_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
inode->i_size = strlen(content);
d_add(dentry, inode);
- inc_nlink(dir);
fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
return 0;
}
