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DateSat, 3 Apr 2004 01:49:47 +0100
FromJamie Lokier <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] cowlinks v2
Chris Friesen wrote:
> Could you not change it back to a normal inode when refcount becomes 1? 

You can only do that if the cowid object has a pointer to the last
remaining reference to it.  That's possible, but more complicated and
would incur a little more I/O per cow operation.

> Or if you didn't want to do that always (say if you knew there would 
> be more references being created soon) you could at least have some kind 
> of cleanup tool that you could manually run on a filesystem to clean it up?

fsck could do it.  It's not a big deal though: simply looking up the
inode through the last remaining path can also clean it up.  Until
them, it's very little space used: the same as a short symlink.

-- Jamie
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