Re: ext2fs: inode with zero dtime

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 18:10:27 -0300


In message <199809020939.KAA03669@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, "Stephen C. Tweedie"
write
s:
+-----
| On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:25:13 -0300, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH"
| <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> said:
| > In message <199809011403.PAA02123@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, "Stephen C. Tweedie"
| > writes:
| > | That allows us to remount readonly then rw again quite safely. On
| > | mounting readwrite, or on remounting the fs after a reboot, any orphaned
| > | files can be found and deleted as part of the mount system call. This
| > Can you tell whether the file is actually reclaimable at that point, though
|
| Yes, you can. If you are remounting the filesystem from scratch then
| you know that all of the orphaned files can be deleted: you can't
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Okay, apparently I misparsed what you said above. It looked to me like that
case was not recognized in your description as not-safe for some reason.

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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