Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] fat: eliminate orphaned inode number allocation

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Maintain a list of inode(i_pos) numbers of orphaned inodes (i.e the
>> inodes that have been unlinked but still having open file
>> descriptors).At file/directory creation time, skip using such i_pos
>> values.Removal of the i_pos from the list is done during inode eviction.
>
> What happens if the directory (has busy entries) was completely removed?
>
>
> And Al's point is important for NFS too. If you want stable ino for NFS,
> you never can't change it.

s/never can't/never can/
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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