From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932574Ab2IDRHo (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:07:44 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:35371 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932467Ab2IDRHn (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:07:43 -0400 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Namjae Jeon Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bfields@fieldses.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon , Ravishankar N , Amit Sahrawat Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] fat: eliminate orphaned inode number allocation References: <1346774312-8142-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> <87mx15910k.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:07:40 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87mx15910k.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (OGAWA Hirofumi's message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:00:11 +0900") Message-ID: <87fw6x90o3.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OGAWA Hirofumi writes: > Namjae Jeon writes: > >> From: Namjae Jeon >> >> 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/ -- OGAWA Hirofumi