[OpenAFS-devel] stat bug?

[Derek Atkins]

Well, the fileserver could theoretically keep a running count,
so it would only be an expensive operation once (perhaps during
a salvage) and then updates can happen as new 'symlinks' are
created.

-derek

Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > i was wondering if linkcount should also count the mount points?
> 
> Assuming you don't keep the mountpoint count state in the inode, it
> might be a fair amount of overhead on the server side to read all the
> vnodes (and the first data byte for symlinks) in a directory when it's
> stat'ed..  Though in theory, I'd agree that the link count probably
> should include the number of mountpoints.
> 
> -- kolya
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