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    • Andreas Dilger's avatar
      ext4: fix dir_nlink behaviour · c7414892
      Andreas Dilger authored
      The dir_nlink feature has been enabled by default for new ext4
      filesystems since e2fsprogs-1.41 in 2008, and was automatically
      enabled by the kernel for older ext4 filesystems since the
      dir_nlink feature was added with ext4 in kernel 2.6.28+ when
      the subdirectory count exceeded EXT4_LINK_MAX-1.
      
      Automatically adding the file system features such as dir_nlink is
      generally frowned upon, since it could cause the file system to not be
      mountable on older kernel, thus preventing the administrator from
      rolling back to an older kernel if necessary.
      
      In this case, the administrator might also want to disable the feature
      because glibc's fts_read() function does not correctly optimize
      directory traversal for directories that use st_nlinks field of 1 to
      indicate that the number of links in the directory are not tracked by
      the file system, and could fail to traverse the full directory
      hierarchy.  Fortunately, in the past ten years very few users have
      complained about incomplete file system traversal by glibc's
      fts_read().
      
      This commit also changes ext4_inc_count() to allow i_nlinks to reach
      the full EXT4_LINK_MAX links on the parent directory (including "."
      and "..") before changing i_links_count to be 1.
      
      Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      c7414892