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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/5] fat: eliminate orphaned inode number allocation
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:07:40AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:
>
> > Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
> >>
> >> 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/

If vfat exports aren't fixable, maybe we should just remove that
feature?

I'm afraid that having unfixable half-working vfat exports is just an
attractive nuisance that causes users and developers to waste their
time....

--b.


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