NTFS driver excessive logging by default: Correct links count

"Artem S. Tashkinov" <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jul 2026 08:15:09 +0000
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ntfs3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

This is my ~22th attempt to draw attention to this issue. Konstantin has=
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been emailed twice with a clean Windows image that exhibits the issue.

Whenever I list files on my NTFS partitions I get a lot of SPAM in=20
dmesg, e.g.:

ntfs3: sda3: ino=3D14c, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=3D73, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=3D167, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=3Dd9, Correct links count -> 1.
ntfs3: sda3: ino=3Dd5, Correct links count -> 1.

And the partition in question has been fully chkdsk'ed and has no issues.

Please fix.

This is still reproducible as of 7.1.3. I first reported the issue for=20
Linux 6.8.2, i.e. over a year ago. Maybe someone could look into it=20
after all. I can email you an NTFS image if necessary but _ANY_ Windows=20
10 or 11 install will exhibit it.

Best regards,
Artem