Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] MR6855: server: Fix renaming file to a hardlink of itself.

[Gabriel Ivăncescu (＠insn)]

On Sat Nov 30 12:04:55 2024 +0000, Jinoh Kang wrote:
> Thanks. By "is_same_file_by_path", do you mean "is_same_dentry"? A file
> can have multiple paths (due to symlinks) as well as realpaths (due to
> mountpoints). I think you're talking about dentry, not path. For
> example, if there are two hardlinks with different names that refer to
> the same file, they are two different *dentries (directory entries)*
> referencing the same *inode*.

Yes that's what I meant. Is there a better way to detect that?