linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?

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Date:	Wed, 09 May 2007 15:50:33 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
CC:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an
 nlink problem?

Matt Mackall wrote:
>> Which I am, extensively, but not on the repo that got damaged.  That's
>> why I was wondering about the nlink issues.  If I qpop a bunch of
>> patches after just pushing them, won't it simply truncate the file?
>>     
>
> Yep. But it will break links before doing that. Basically all opens go
> through a function that breaks links.
>   

Well, yes, but I was proposing the theory that xfs was misreporting the
linkcount, which would confuse the link-breaking logic, right?

    J

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