Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm forwarding my reply to an e-mail to freebsd-fs@.
>
> I believe that when we have immutable flag set on an inode/znode it
> shouldn't be possible to change its link count. We don't allow it for
> unlink(2) (going from N to N-1), so we shouldn't allow to increase it
> either.

This is something that may be a subject of discussion as it depends on what you 
call "immutable". Preventing unlink(2) is definitely covered by immutable, but 
adding links is something that depends on whether you like to include immutable 
meta data.

Jörg

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