Index: lustre+chaos/lustre/ldiskfs/namei.c
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--- linux-2.6.5-7.283-full.orig/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6.5-7.283-full/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2184,8 +2184,8 @@ static int ldiskfs_link (struct dentry *
	 * Return -ENOENT if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is 0.  Doing
	 * otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list.
	 */
-	if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
-		return -ENOENT;
+	//if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+	//	return -ENOENT;
 
 retry:
	handle = ldiskfs_journal_start(dir, LDISKFS_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS +