> ... 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; }