But the point is that if we check inode->i_nlink and
it's 0, then we will probably never write those blocks
out to the backing store (unless we run out of memory),
so the performance of NFS isn't an issue.
Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> inode->i_links == 0 ?
(i_nlink?) I'll have to take a look at the 2.1 code
tonight to see if it already checks this when it does
a sync, or if it's possible to patch it ...
Rich.
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