Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe annlink problem?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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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