Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:16:12AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> 	* ubifs, hfsplus, jffs2 - definitely broken if you create enough
> links.  i_nlink wraparound to zero, confused inode eviction logics.

BTW, ubifs plays funny games with i_nlink - decrements it early in
unlink/rmdir/rename and then increments it back on failure.  *If*
we really want it that way, we need to use set_nlink() there.  Frankly,
I'd rather deal with drop_nlink() after the last possible failure
exit...  Unless there are serious reasons why that wouldn't work, that is.
Artem?
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