diff -ur pvfs-1.6.3-pre1/mgr/meta/md_unlink.c pvfs-1.6.3-pre1-lnk/mgr/meta/md_unlink.c
--- pvfs-1.6.3-pre1/mgr/meta/md_unlink.c	Mon Nov 24 18:41:45 2003
+++ pvfs-1.6.3-pre1-lnk/mgr/meta/md_unlink.c	Thu Apr 29 13:59:50 2004
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
 		perror("md_unlink: lstat");
 		return (-1);
 	}
-	if(S_ISLNK(statbuf.st_mode)) {
+	/* catch both symlinks and hard links */
+	if(S_ISLNK(statbuf.st_mode) || (S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode) && (statbuf.st_nlink > 1))) {
 		if(is_link) *is_link = 1;
 		/* Check permission on directory */
 		strncpy(temp, fname, MAXPATHLEN);