From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932535Ab2IDRAX (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:00:23 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:35367 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932241Ab2IDRAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:00:22 -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> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:00:11 +0900 In-Reply-To: <1346774312-8142-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> (Namjae Jeon's message of "Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:58:32 +0900") Message-ID: <87mx15910k.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 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. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi