>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes:

 ES> Al says "no" and I'm not arguing.  :)

 ES> Apparently this may be OK with some filesystems, and Al says he doesn't
 ES> want to know about i_nlink in the vfs in any case.

well, generic_drop_inode() uses i_nlink ...

 ES> But I suppose there may be other filesystems which DO care, and should
 ES> be checking if they're not.

this is why I thought VFS could take care.

thanks, Alex
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