[Ocfs2-devel] dinode link count inconsistency in ocfs2_read_links_count() logic

[Joseph Qi]

On 11/22/22 12:15 AM, Alexey Asemov (Alex/AT) via Ocfs2-devel wrote:
> The modification I mentioned surely fixes the thing (well, obviously).
> 
> If to reproduce, trivial as well:
> 
> - mkfs with indexed-dirs option (otherwise low hardlink limit will apply)
> - Create a file
> - Create 65535 hardlinks to it, stat will now show 65536 hardlinks (that comes from local inode cache)
> - Clear inode cache (for me cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches is enough) or reboot
> - stat again and you will see hardlink count = 0 that is the result of actual inconsistency
> 

Will take a deep look into it.

Thanks,
Joseph