Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 3/9] NFSv4: Always set NLINK even if the server doesn't support it

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 09:12, Lionel Cons lionelcons1972@gmail.com wrote:

How can an application then test whether a filesystem supports hard links, or not?

I think link will fail with EPERM on those systems. However, this patch doesn't break existing things though, since filesystems don't support hard links cannot be mounted by NFS (before).

Thanks.