linkfile: use fops->create in dht_linkfile_create #4585
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A newly created linkfile will be deleted for the race, after this, the gfid between linkfile and datafile may get mismatched. And shards deletion process is also affected by such a mismatch, most shards in BRICK_PATH/.shard cannot be removed correctly and space cannot be release.
To fix this race, replace mknod with create during linkfile creation, in this case, we can keep this linkfile opening during the whole linkfile and datafile creations.
A linkfile will not be regarded as stale and deleted then, because its fd is opened and posix_unlink can handle it properly.
Fixes: #4548