Re: link() not increasing link count on NFS server

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Adam McDougall wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:45:49AM -0500, Adam McDougall wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:37:56PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>    OK, I've attached an initial patch that does this -- we still need to 
> keep
>    the lookup code for NFSv2, where the file handle of the new node isn't
>    returned with the reply, but I drop the EEXIST handling cases.  Does this
>    look reasonable to you?  I'm not set up to easily test this scenario,
>    however.
>
>    Robert N M Watson
>
>  I should be able to test this patch (or a later version) this weekend.
>
> Seems to work.  I ran the original test case for several minutes without 
> error for over 2000 iterations.  I only tested it on -stable by applying the 
> patch manually.  If it is required I test it verbatim on 7, let me know and 
> I will.  Thanks.

This sounds good, I will go ahead and merge it to HEAD, then start on the MFC 
cycle.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge