> On May 21, 2018, at 17:27, Luis Henriques <lhenriq...@suse.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, calling stat on a cephfs directory returns 1 for st_nlink.
> This behaviour has recently changed in the fuse client, as some
> applications seem to expect this value to be either 0 (if it's
> unlinked) or 2 + number of subdirectories. This behaviour was changed
> in the fuse client with commit 67c7e4619188 ("client: use common
> interp of st_nlink for dirs").
>
> This patch modifies the kernel client to have a similar behaviour.
>
> Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/23873
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriq...@suse.com>
> ---
> fs/ceph/inode.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/inode.c b/fs/ceph/inode.c
> index aa7c5a4ff137..6ad66ef8fd66 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c
> @@ -2288,6 +2288,14 @@ int ceph_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat
> *stat,
> stat->size = ci->i_files + ci->i_subdirs;
> stat->blocks = 0;
> stat->blksize = 65536;
> + /*
> + * Some applications rely on the number of st_nlink
> + * value on directories to be either 0 (if unlinked)
> + * or 2 + number of subdirectories.
> + */
> + if (stat->nlink == 1)
> + /* '.' + '..' + subdirs */
> + stat->nlink = 1 + 1 + ci->i_subdirs;
> }
> }
> return err;
Applied, thanks.
Yan, Zheng
