Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:49:34 +0300 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | is the inode an orphan? |
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Hi,
I need a help from VFS folks: when I'm in ->unlink() in is there a safe way to to realize that ->delete_inod()e is going to be called? IOW, I'd like to call myfs_delete_inode() myself form ->unlink(), and not wait for VFS calling ->delete_inode().
Or to put it differently, I'd like to know if the inode is an orphan or not in ->unlink()?
AFAICS, if (inode->i_nlink == 0 && atomic_read(&inode->i_count) == 2) then this file is not going to be an orphan. And AFAIC judge, it is safe to use this, but I'm not sure and kindly ask for help.
Thanks.
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