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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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