linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] debugfs/ncheck: find all names for given inodes

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Message-ID: <20180805160827.GA3612@thunk.org>
Date:   Sun, 5 Aug 2018 12:08:27 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jaco Kroon <jaco@....co.za>
Cc:     linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs/ncheck:  find all names for given inodes

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 08:06:46PM +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Due to hard links inodes can have multiple names (except for folders),
> ncheck should find all of the names (equal to the number of links to the
> inodes, directories excepted), not names to the count of the provided
> inodes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@....co.za>

Thanks!  I adjusted the commit message to make it clear this is fixing
a bug.

						- Ted