>> In 4.4-Lite, symlinks appear to have the inode number and time stamps
>> of the directory they're in.  This is allegedly a feature, though I'm
>> starting to think it's one of the silliest changes I've seen yet.
>
>The idea, from my (minimal) understanding of it, is that symlinks may
>become non-inode entities, and that this is preparatory to that.
>

I haven't heard this.  Where is the symlink information going to go,
to the directories themselves?