On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Ben England <bengl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> What is update-link-count-parent POSIX xlator parameter for?  Is it ever set 
> by anyone and why?  It appears to be off by default.  Didn't see this 
> documented, but the log message in posix.c says:  "update-link-count-parent 
> is enabled. Thus for each file an extended attribute representing the number 
> of hardlinks for that file within the same parent directory is set."  Why 
> would this be necessary?
>

It was supposed to be used by Quota or it uses it internally i am not
sure for ancestry paths and gfid to path conversion - AFAIK

# gluster volume set <volname> build-pgfid on

Enables this feature. Never tested it personally.

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